Update on grade strike
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Update on grade strike
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Re: Update on grade strike
#2Some background:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe45b/graduate-student-s...
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#3As far as I can tell (I attend UC Santa Barbara, where graduate students started striking Thursday) this has only strengthened the resolve of the protesters. There were complaints about the strike "hurting the quality of education" which may have turned some against the graduate students involved but with this move (specifically, firing 52 number of graduate students, not providing appointments to others) I can only see the issue getting more heated.
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#4Striking coincidence that I’m reading a biography on Jimmy Hoffa right now.
$2500 a year is a slap in the face to the $1800 / month the students were demanding.
Something needs to change there. For the Midwest small college town where I went $20,000-30,000 was plenty (for people without kids at least). I imagine it’d be a lot harder in CA coastal cities.
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#5Students pay through the nose, grads can barely make ends meet. Where does the tuition money go?
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#6I find it ironic that on the same page where the University is detailing how badly they intend to treat the graduate students, they also have a link to make a gift to the University.
If I were in a position to make a significant gift, I would be more inclined to make it to the graduate students (e.g. through a strike fund, or other means).
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#7One of the better ways that occurred to me when we Cal grad students were protesting a couple of decades ago was, rather than withhold the grades, simply to give everyone an 'A'. That form of protest most directly targeted the institution since it simply affected its reputation. The students were not hurt, the grad students could comply with their obligations and move on. I am surprised that such an approach never took off.
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#8One of the better ways that occurred to me when we Cal grad students were protesting a couple of decades ago was, rather than withhold the grades, simply to give everyone an 'A'. That form of protest most directly targeted the institution since it simply affected its reputation. The students were not hurt, the grad students could comply with their obligations and move on. I am surprised that such an approach never to…
Ha, wouldn’t that be nice :) I’m not sure if professors would allow that to go through, though…
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#9Students pay through the nose, grads can barely make ends meet. Where does the tuition money go?
Administrators, buildings, and sports usually.
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#10One of the better ways that occurred to me when we Cal grad students were protesting a couple of decades ago was, rather than withhold the grades, simply to give everyone an 'A'. That form of protest most directly targeted the institution since it simply affected its reputation. The students were not hurt, the grad students could comply with their obligations and move on. I am surprised that such an approach never to…
> The students were not hurt
They’re not getting genuine feedback on their work.