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It’s been a banner year for student worker organizing. Several new undergraduate student employee unions formed in the past few months, including at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

The Hispanic Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut and Eastern Connecticut State University have joined forces to offer scholarships to in-state students from Hispanic and Latino communities.

Yale University graduate student workers gathered Wednesday to declare their intent to form a union.

“I sincerely hope this gesture will be one more step in our reconciliation for the disappointment Occom experienced,” the Dartmouth College president said.

The University of Connecticut women’s basketball team used a big run in the third quarter to advance past Indiana University in Saturday’s NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game. UConn’s 16 unanswered points at the start of the second half propelled the Huskies to a 75-58 win over the Hoosiers.

Residential Life (ResLife) student workers at Wesleyan University in Connecticut formed the Wesleyan Union of Student Employees (WesUSE) last week. The group says this makes them the first confirmed union of undergraduate student workers in the country to be voluntarily recognized by their university.

The Huskies survived the University of Central Florida Monday night in Storrs to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA women's basketball Tournament.

After a regional accreditor’s approval of the merger proposal by Connecticut State Colleges and Universities, education officials said it is a milestone toward higher enrollment and financial stability.If fully approved, the dozen campuses will become a single community college system called CT State. The entire final approval and accreditation process is expected to take about 15 months.

The Huskies will compete for an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament in the Big East Tournament (March 4-7) this weekend at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville.

The academic partnership will involve Hartford HealthCare’s investment of $5 million over the next five years into Quinnipiac University's medicine, nursing and health sciences programs.