Graduate student employees at the University of Maryland have been working to pass a bill that would allow them to form a union.
Check out www.mtrumd.org/ for more about what’s going on. A recent Baltimore Sun article about the struggle can be found here.

By Laura Poyneer
The American Association of University Professors Special Committee on Academic Freedom and National Security an a Time of Crisis has published a report.
The report looks at the effects of the Patriot Act on academic institutions, the problems that researchers are facing because of government restrictions on information, concerns over the increased scrutiny […]