“This would cripple our institution if graduate workers weren’t available for teaching responsibilities.'
Graduate students across America are forming unions, holding protests and, in some cases, being arrested to draw attention to their cause. What is it they’re after? In many cases, it’s a livable wage.
“We want to be giving Loyola really high-quality teaching and scholarship, and they are not giving us the resources that allow us to do that,” Clifford said. The issue of proper financial compensation, Clifford said, came down to the question “Can you survive on the amount of money that you get in your bank account to do the amount of work that we’re asked to do?” With $18,000 for the year as the contract provides, Clifford answered “no.”
“In the spirit of not wanting to jinx it, it’s hard to answer that, but I will say that after our action at Loyola on Monday I am more and more optimistic that the university will listen to what we’re saying,” Clifford said. Murphy is a teaching assistant for a “gateway” course that’s a requirement for every architectural student. With hundreds of students each year needing the class, without the use of graduate students like herself, Murphy said the “architectural program by itself would be completely undone.”
“I’m hopeful, but honestly sometimes I think someone will have to die, or someone will have to become homeless, or someone will have to experience food scarcity, go on food stamps, before this university makes a change,” she said. In his fourth year of Duke’s Ph.D. program, Taft, an international student from Australia, is an assistant editor for an academic journal, and when he’s responsible for teaching courses, it can require up to 20 hours of work a week. Taft has a nine-month stipend of $23,500 and credited having a partner with a second income for why he hasn’t had to take out loans.
“Duke believes that graduate students who engage in research and teaching as part of their programs of study are students, not employees,” the university told Newsweek. “As members of an academic community, graduate students have a unique relationship with faculty and each other that is based on education, not employment.”
While financial compensation is part of the proposed union’s platform, Schroeing said that for Pittsburgh graduate students, it was more about transparency in how decisions were being made. She said they weren't given a voice when it came to funding, teaching assignments and nominations for fellowships, all of which affect their lives.
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