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Provost Brian Blake is stepping down from his position after he was announced as Georgia State University’s sole finalist for the position of president.
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The vote responds to concerns raised at the last assembly in November when faculty had to suspend a rule that only permitted voting rights if members attended the meeting in person.
News By Yankun Zhao May 10, 2021 9:49 AM
The Faculty Senate passed a resolution Friday permitting online voting at regular or special Faculty Assembly meetings.
The resolution states that members of the assembly, which is open to all faculty with full-time faculty serving as voting members, may be considered “present” and therefore qualified to vote if they’re virtually in attendance at a meeting permitted to be held online. The vote responds to concerns raised at the last assembly meeting in November when faculty needed to suspend a rule that only permitted voting rights if members attended the meeting in person.
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The passage of the legislation, which would grant congressional representation to the more than 700,000 citizens of the District, comes nearly a year after the U.S. House passed the statehood bill for the first time.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in favor of D.C. statehood Thursday with its second vote of approval in just as many years.
In a 216 to 208 vote that split along party lines, the House passed a bill that would admit D.C. as the Union’s 51st state, granting one representative and two senators voting power in Congress and renaming the District as the “State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth” after abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The passage of the legislation, which would grant congressional representation to the more than 700,000 citizens of the District, comes nearly a year after the House passed the statehood bill for the first time.
Op-eds By Grace Bautista Apr 19, 2021 1:22 AM
Grace Bautista is a senior and the historian for the GW Asian American Student Association.
Over the past few weeks, Asian American and Pacific Islander student leaders at GW were faced with the horrific news of the March 16 shooting in Atlanta, where a violent hate crime took the lives of eight people, six of whom were Asian women.
During our grief and processing, many of us also learned we had finally won our yearslong fight for an Asian American studies minor. It was a bittersweet moment. For members of the Asian American Student Association who had been advocating for the minor for years, it seemed as if this moment would never arrive. But the minor’s implementation is a reminder of all we have faced this year and how far GW still needs to go to provide AAPI students with the resources and support we deserve.