Pro-Palestine students say the decision violates the terms of a deal they had reached with the administration.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/Fr5E0
Harvard’s grad students are with the UAW. The tension between faculty and admin boiling over could become a much bigger thing, with the UAW also organising grad students across the country. At least at my university the bulk of the courseload falls onto the grad students outside of lectures.
I don’t think UAW in this context means United Auto Workers….
It does. I was a grad student under them. They couldn’t have given less of a fuck about us. They demanded we end strike activity with 21% approval.
Because the [13] students included as the result of Monday’s amendment are not in good standing, we cannot responsibly vote to award them degrees at this time. In coming to this determination, we note that the express provisions of the Harvard College Student Handbook state that students who are not in good standing are not eligible for degrees. We also considered the inequity of exempting a particular group of students who are not in good standing from established rules, while other seniors with similar status for matters unrelated to Monday’s faculty amendment would be unable to graduate.
Okay so, if this was your reason, why not have come forward about these than specifically targeting the group of people based on what side of an international conflict they picked?
If I understand it correctly, the 13 are not in good standing solely because they participated in the protests. So they are very much being penalised for their participation and nothing else.
How do they define ‘good standing’? Did the students get incompletes from missing class or something?
If it is JUST protesting then that is some bullshit.
