Posted on 08/30/2015 7:36:14 AM PDT by george76
Graduate students at MU will demonstrate for larger stipends and university-subsidized housing and child care.
Professors plan to cancel classes in order to attend the rally in support of their teaching assistants.
An upcoming rally by graduate students at the University of Missouri (MU) demanding increased pay and benefits will likely provide undergraduate students with an unexpected break from their classes.
Several MU professors plan to cancel classes Wednesday—just two days after the beginning of the fall semester—in order to attend the rally in support of their teaching assistants, who are demonstrating for larger stipends and university-subsidized housing and child care.
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The group was created in response to the university’s Aug. 15 announcement that it would no longer be able to offer graduate student employees a $3,000 per year health insurance subsidy due to a provision in the Affordable Care Act, and would instead offer one-time fellowships that are not technically linked to health insurance.
“The Affordable Care Act prevents employers from giving employees money specifically so they can buy health insurance on the individual market,” the university said, explaining that “graduate teaching and research assistants are classified as employees by the IRS, so they fall under this ruling.”
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LOL. These grad students were probably too young to vote in 2008, but you know who they voted for in 2012. You made your bed, you idiots. Now enjoy lying in it.
My wife worked as a grad student while getting her Masters and Doctorate. What we found out is that grad students do the majority of teaching at the undergraduate level, get paid peanuts. No break on fees or tuition but the are the backbone of the college system. What they get paid is less than minimum wage.
Colleges — already largely cut off from and isolated from society — are retreating to the Medieval model where churches were the center of small reading communities surrounded by the illiterate and unwashed. Except in the current model, colleges are bastions of pc poison and tyranny self-isolating from the wider society who finds them repellant.
Our daughter got a scholarship for her grad degree and made additional spending money as a TA and RA. You live cheaply, eat cheaply, and make it. It’s not easy, but that’s what you do.
Canceling classes on the second day of the new academic year? Inexcusable. As a parent of a student, I would be extremely mad.
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