Randal Picker, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and the recently appointed vice provost for academic affairs, passed away on Saturday. He was 66 years old.
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- The Office of International Affairs said it was evaluating how the new Trump administration rule, which applies to F and J visa holders, will affect international students at the University.
- The Office of Management and Budget proposal would give political appointees greater authority over grant decisions and threaten long-term and international research, the University wrote in a public comment submitted Monday.
- The National Labor Relations Board today certified that the University of Chicago Press Workers Guild had won their union election and could begin collective bargaining on behalf of the 134-member unit. 89 percent of eligible workers across Press facilities voted to unionize.
- The University’s outgoing vice provost for academic affairs, who oversaw adherence to the Kalven Report, was on the committee behind a new report that some faculty have viewed as antithetical to institutional neutrality.
