The Dark Side of America’s Gleaming Skyscrapers Susannah Jacob
Photographs by Daniel Shea
In 2014, at age 19, Eric Mendoza left his farming village outside Mexico City and crossed the Rio Grande. Once in the United States, he worked construction jobs to pay his way across the country. From Texas, Mendoza traveled to rural North Carolina, where he built homes. At a Metro PCS store, he bought a cellphone for $100 so he could call his mother, Elizabeth, who had come to the U.S. when Eric was 8.
On his new phone, Eric told his mother that he had finally arrived. He said North Carolina’s open fields reminded him of home. “He told me, ‘Mom, why can’t you come to me here?’” Elizabeth recalled recently, speaking through a translator. Her life was in New York, she replied. So Eric traveled to Florida, where more construction jobs helped him save for the $700 journey to New York in a
Today, the University of Arizona joined 38 higher education institutions and partner organizations to launch the Taskforce on Higher Education and Opportunity. The University of Arizona and task force member partners are driven to act by the challenges caused by the pandemic, income inequality, the changing nature of work and levels of unemployment among recent college graduates nearly double those seen in the 2008 recession. The impact of this crisis is falling unevenly across groups and disproportionately impacting people of color, no matter their educational backgrounds. The task force will provide greater opportunity to students and communities, while reimagining higher education s contribution to society and sharing insights with the broader education community.
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Columbia University graduate workers begin strike for better working and living conditions
Today over 3,000 student workers at Columbia University in New York City are going on strike after more than two years of unsuccessful negotiations with the administration over the college’s first graduate student labor contract.
The struggle comes more than four years after student workers voted to unionize, forming the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers (GWC-UAW). It comes on the heels of a graduate student worker strike just last year, organized against the university’s inadequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
View of Columbia University (credit: Subhamoy Pal, Creative Commons)
Ph.D. Candidate Alfredo Vidal Ceballos Creates Microscopic Images to Increase Awareness of Diseases Like Alzheimer’s
Alfredo Vidal Ceballos
s, a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry, works in Professor
Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle’s lab at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, where he researches the role that material properties, such as viscosity and surface tension, play in regulating biomolecular liquids in the brain.
Vidal Ceballos
is also a Creative GC: Art Science Connect Research Fellow. The fellowship supports his project to create compelling microscopic images that increase understanding of what a disease like Alzheimer’s actually does to the brain. He recently spoke to The Graduate Center about his work and his academic career at CUNY, which began in 2012 when he moved from Mexico to enroll at Hunter College.