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Kimberly Hoppe, a University of Iowa doctoral student and president of the Graduate Student Senate, works under a hood to get uncontaminated saline at the University of Iowa's Institute for Rural and Environmental Health on the Oakdale Campus on Friday, April 12, 2013, in southeast Coralville, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Iowa graduate students teaching less

But educators, students say positions have big impact on universities

IOWA CITY — The undergraduate student credit hours taught by graduate students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University declined from 2006 to 2010, a decrease some officials and graduate student leaders attribute to the schools using more nontenured faculty. The biennial report on faculty activities submitted to the state Board of Regents [...]

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The Old Capitol and the Pentacrest at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. (The Gazette)

University of Iowa grad students seek pay raise

Proposal covers teaching, research assistants

IOWA CITY — A union representing University of Iowa graduate students seeks a 5 percent salary increase for graduate student employees for each of the next two years. The UE Local 896-COGS (Campaign to Organize Graduate Students) opened negotiations for the 2013-15 contract Thursday with the organization’s proposal. UI and state Board of Regents officials [...]

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