Wherever you party, please support your GTFs. They care deeply about your education but have been backed into a corner by an administration who had already engaged in unethical practices to pit students against graduate teachers. It's unfortunate that the administration embarked on a $2 Billion fundraising campaign while sitting on a $30 Million surplus but told your graduate teachers that there was no money to increase their half-time pay to a fair wage. Equally perplexing is that interim president Coltrane had the time to appear on NPR to explain how businesses must give employees paid sick leave because everyone benefits - then allowed the lawyer who has been paid over $100k of your tuition dollars to tell the graduate teachers that it's a matter of principal to deny them the benefit that Coltrane jets around the country to endorse.
If none of this makes sense, at least remember that your graduate teachers are deeply invested in your education, and sometimes that means walking away from classes to strike for what's right for everyone involved. I hope you look into it for yourselves and lend them whatever efforts and assistance you deem appropriate. And let the administration know you're doing so.
Wherever you party, please support your GTFs. They care deeply about your education but have been backed into a corner by an administration who had already engaged in unethical practices to pit students against graduate teachers. It's unfortunate that the administration embarked on a $2 Billion fundraising campaign while sitting on a $30 Million surplus but told your graduate teachers that there was no money to increase their half-time pay to a fair wage. Equally perplexing is that interim president Coltrane had the time to appear on NPR to explain how businesses must give employees paid sick leave because everyone benefits - then allowed the lawyer who has been paid over $100k of your tuition dollars to tell the graduate teachers that it's a matter of principal to deny them the benefit that Coltrane jets around the country to endorse.
ReplyDeleteIf none of this makes sense, at least remember that your graduate teachers are deeply invested in your education, and sometimes that means walking away from classes to strike for what's right for everyone involved. I hope you look into it for yourselves and lend them whatever efforts and assistance you deem appropriate. And let the administration know you're doing so.