The Capital Times reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: TAA co-president Cynthia Burnson called the administration’s insistence on defining the graduate students as students first “devalues our role as workers and the labor we provide the university. …
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The Capital Times reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: “I think it’s always a good idea to have students involved. That’s how I operated at my previous institution,” said Karpus, who was a professor of pathology and …
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The Wisconsin State Journal reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: Karpus acknowledged that students were not involved in the process of writing the policy, most of which he said happened before he became dean in August. He has …
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Wort Labor Radio reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: What in effect it does is increases disparity amongst graduate student employees by privileging those departments who happen to have those types of money to pay their graduate …
The Badger Herald reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: The association fears some graduate students could potentially lose their jobs due to the restructuring, and they ask for a say in UW’s proposal changes before they are made. …
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The Capital Times reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: In the works since late last year, the proposed changes to graduate student worker compensation — unlike faculty cuts forced by the state’s reduction in funding — are …
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Inside Higher Ed reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: Teaching assistants at the University of Wisconsin at Madison are planning to protest next week over a proposed restructuring of their working conditions and compensation. The students say …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UW-Madison to Radically Restructure Graduate Student Pay; Graduate Students Not Consulted Madison, WI (November 12, 2015): On Wednesday, November 18, at noon in front of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, the UW-Madison Teaching Assistants’ …
United Council has put a petition against the budget cuts and public authority online at www.saveouruw.com. The site will also be hosting updated news and information about the cuts.
[Reposted from the reclaim UC blogspot. Authored by TAA members Elsa Noterman and Lenora Hanson.] What University Administrators Gain from $300 Million in Cuts Over the past two weeks the UW System and UW-Madison administrations have gone on the defensive …
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