Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Emory University’s Integrated Financial Planning and Budgeting Executive Committee accepted a proposal on Nov. 28 to incrementally increase the student minimum wage to $15 an hour by fall 2024. Emory Students for Students, a student advocacy group , publicized the decision in a Dec. 5 Instagram post. This decision comes after Students for Students gained signatures from about 1,400 Emory community members and 86 organizations on their petition to raise the student minimum wage.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Members and leaders of the Professional Staff Congress, the CUNY faculty and staff union, testified in front of the CUNY Board of Trustees on Monday night, demanding maximum university funding and better wages. Addressing the Board a week before it votes on whether to approve the University Budget Request for the coming fiscal year, union members’ aim was twofold: to keep the budget increases coming and to begin to demand salary increases and better working conditions in the upcoming union contr

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