Articles tagged as: Bloomington
May 10, 2022
Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition votes to suspend strike until the fall
The first resolution passed at the faculty meeting affirms no retaliation against any individuals, including Student Academic appointees for summer and fall, participating in the strike. The second resolution says that the IU Board of Trustees must engage in dialogue with the Coalition and provide a pathway to union recognition.
Read MoreApril 28, 2022
Graduate student government votes 'no confidence' in IU provost
Indiana University graduate student leaders say they've lost confidence in newly appointed Provost Rahul Shrivastav.
Read MoreApril 27, 2022
Young voters showed out for the 2020 election. Can they keep it up?
Usually, younger Americans vote well under their proportion of the population. In Indiana, 42 percent of young voters participated in the 2020 election, up from 35 percent in 2016.
Read MoreApril 25, 2022
Fans pack Bloomington stadium for first in-person Little 500 since start of pandemic
The annual Little 500 draws tens of thousands of visitors each spring to party and watch the race, in which four-member teams compete on a quarter-mile track.
Read MoreApril 22, 2022
Indiana University faculty brace for graduate worker firings after meetings with administration
Half a dozen faculty at Indiana University said they're bracing for striking graduate student workers to lose their positions. They said their concerns stem from information they've learned at closed-door meetings with the Provost and other campus administrators.
Read MoreApril 19, 2022
Indiana University graduate student workers vote to extend strike another week
Around 1,000 graduate workers have been on strike for almost a week now. It comes after the university administration refused to officially recognize the union.
Read MoreApril 15, 2022
Indiana University graduate workers go on strike for union recognition
Around 1,000 graduate student workers at Indiana Universitys Bloomington campus are on strike to demand the school recognize them as a union. But the school says it has no intention of bargaining with the group and no legal obligation to do so.
Read MoreOctober 21, 2021
BPD looking for information on vandalism at the Islamic Center of Bloomington
The Bloomington Police Department is asking for public help in identifying a suspect who vandalized the Islamic Center of Bloomington early Monday morning.
Read MoreOctober 18, 2021
Bloomington among college towns planning to challenge results of 2020 census
When the pandemic struck the U.S. around spring break of 2020, it set off an exodus in college towns as classrooms went virtual almost overnight. The sudden departure of tens of thousands of students made it difficult to count them in the census, which began at almost the same time.
Read MoreSeptember 20, 2021
EPA Removes PCB-laced Bloomington Sites From Superfund List
The EPA said monitoring will continue at the three sites, which were contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.
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