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After months of debate, the University of Massachusetts Amherst announced that it would bring back teaching assistant positions and commit to increasing enrollment at its Labor Center on campus. The Labor Center was founded in 1964 as a school to train students in labor law and collective bargaining. The school currently enrolls approximately 100 students. The university will restore six teaching assistant positions, which will be funded by stipends paid by the university. Labor unions will be responsible for funding 12 graduate internships, costing $23,071 each. The university's goal is to double undergraduate enrollment by 2020. Despite UMass rejecting some of the Labor Center's requests, the Labor Center's administration applauded the university's commitment to the school.