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Shrewlord t1_j6ogb6k wrote

Reply to comment by sneeze-slayer in Temple University Graduate Students Go on Strike after Year of Unsuccessful Negotiations by BigxMac

Most are working extremely long hours for a very small stipend. It's essentially low cost highly skilled labor for universities. It's absolutely criminal that this system has persisted for so long.

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Little_Noodles t1_j6p6o8g wrote

You’re right. And it’s still better paying than adjunct work, which is where most of these students will wind up.

Half my job as an adjunct was talking students out of the field. The other half was spent getting myself out.

I’m a big proponent of higher ed as an experience, but absolutely everything about its current financial model is disastrously unsustainable and predatory to almost everyone involved.

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