GSO to select representative for DPS review board
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GSO President Mir Hashemi will serve as chair of the temporary selection committee, which will review applications for the representative position.
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The Graduate Senate Organization spoke about its representation on a community review board that will oversee Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety at its senate meeting Wednesday.
In a 97-page report about DPS, former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch proposed that the department establish a community review board to review and comment on standard operating procedures and review all community-facing functions of the department.
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Syracuse University has increased minimum wages for graduate student positions after more than a year of conversations between students and administrators.
SU’s Graduate Student Organization began discussions with the Graduate School last year about raising the minimum stipend for graduate student employees. This year, the university raised graduate assistantship stipends by an average of 2.5%, said Peter Vanable, dean of the graduate school, in an email to The Daily Orange.
But efforts to increase wages for graduate student employees at SU are years-old, and some students believe there’s still more work for the university to do. In 2018, GSO’s Employment Issues Committee found that 75% of graduate assistants earn less pay than the cost of attendance.