The Badger Herald reported on the Graduate School’s proposed new pay structure for graduate assistants: “We are very committed to paying competitive wages for graduate students, even in difficult budget times,” Blank said. “We know we are underpaying our graduate …
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The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on the Graduate School’s proposed new pay structure for graduate assistants: When one of America’s first graduate-student unions was recognized at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in 1969, organizers embraced a key principle: …
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The TAA International Student Caucus has been hard at work in pushing back against administration’s arbitrary international student fee, introduced just this summer. They’ve created a petition calling on UW-Madison administrators to rescind this fee and respect the important contributions …
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The Wisconsin Gazette reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: Concerned about the effect the new proposal will have on departments across campus, Brooks said, “When the administration pushes through policy changes like this, without graduate student input, …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UW-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association Forces Delay of Radical Restructuring of Graduate Student Pay Madison, WI (November 24, 2015): After several weeks of advocacy work by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA), university administration has agreed …
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The Journal Sentinel reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: But a plan for how to make the University of Wisconsin-Madison more competitive is highly controversial and has been delayed until May 2017 because confusion was interfering with …
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The Daily Cardinal reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: Karpus acknowledged the committee that created the policy changes included UW-Madison faculty, deans and associate deans of schools and colleges on campus, members of the University Committee and …
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The Capital Times photographed the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: A crowd gathers outside Bascom Hall during a TAA rally at UW-Madison, in Madison, on Wednesday, November 18, 2015. See more pictures at The Capital Times.
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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