Graduate education

Students ditch classes to support their teaching assistants on the picket line.

Study looks for factors that encourage Ph.D. completion and finds that expectations count for a lot.

In showdown on TA rights, university says most grad students are on the job; union says its members are holding out.

It's far from clear, at this relatively early stage, whether the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education will go the legislative route to pursue whatever changes its members desire. But if the panel chooses to do so, it will almost certainly need the help of U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the former U.S. education secretary and University of Tennessee president who heads the Senate's education subcommittee. 

Group will commission annual studies to improve training of master's and Ph.D. students.

Some NYU graduate students return to the picket lines for a second semester -- but others return to teaching.

Stipends are gone for some striking NYU graduate assistants.

Bolstering U.S. competitiveness is not just the government's job, research university group says in new report.

Stanford offers new policy to help pregnant grad students.

Black graduate students charge that they are recruited -- and then discouraged from going for doctorates.