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Penn State president affirms support for graduate students’ rights, flags research‑assistant issues
Summary
Penn State’s president told lawmakers the university supports student free speech and the rights of teaching assistants to organize, but raised separate operational concerns about research assistants and said the university needs to consider research‑specific complexities.
Penn State’s president told the House Appropriations Committee that the university supports free speech and recognizes the contributions of graduate students, including teaching assistants, while expressing concerns about how unionization could affect research assistant roles.
Representative Siegel asked whether the university would publicly support a graduate student union election in the spring for about 5,000 research and graduate…
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