Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2023 12:30:09 GMT -5
Benefits for striking Grad students:
www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155762537/temple-university-grad-strike
Plenty of other schools have had recent strikes and disagreements lately. The New School recently settled their issues, but only after a protracted strike. It's tough to survive as a grad student if you don't have other resources besides low pay.
There's a great pay divide between instructors and professors in academia. At SUNY Old Westbury decades ago I had 2 colleagues who were just short of earning their PhD's. One was classified as instructor and the other was a fully tenured professor. Both were excellent teachers. The instructor was a grad student at Rutgers who hadn't published any research. The professor was a Columbia grad student who had published, was a labor organizer, was active in the south with rights for African-Americans protests. The main reason he hadn't finished his dissertation was his extensive involvement in labor and civil rights causes. That was what put him over the top and the fact that he was a brilliant labor historian. But he never finished his doctorate....
www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155762537/temple-university-grad-strike
Plenty of other schools have had recent strikes and disagreements lately. The New School recently settled their issues, but only after a protracted strike. It's tough to survive as a grad student if you don't have other resources besides low pay.
There's a great pay divide between instructors and professors in academia. At SUNY Old Westbury decades ago I had 2 colleagues who were just short of earning their PhD's. One was classified as instructor and the other was a fully tenured professor. Both were excellent teachers. The instructor was a grad student at Rutgers who hadn't published any research. The professor was a Columbia grad student who had published, was a labor organizer, was active in the south with rights for African-Americans protests. The main reason he hadn't finished his dissertation was his extensive involvement in labor and civil rights causes. That was what put him over the top and the fact that he was a brilliant labor historian. But he never finished his doctorate....
