$3 billion dollar annual endowment, 62k a year tuition, cannot afford to pay TAs

Boston University Graduate Students are on strike, follow them at https://twitter.com/gradworkersofBU

  • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    We’re close to the final stage, all the decision makers are either true believers misled by propaganda or people aware of the situation and looting it.

    Surely it can’t stand for much longer sicko-wistful

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    I hope students sue the school for failing to provide the bare minimum to them. Trump University presumably doesn’t make students grade themselves. The for-profit schools that advertise on late night TV at least pay someone with a degree to look over what the students submit. This would be as disruptive to my education as COVID was and those consequences would continue in the classes which utilise information from these.

    • micnd90 [he/him,any]@hexbear.netOP
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      6 months ago

      Grading yourself is also extra work, time commitment and opportunity cost for no benefit - you could’ve studied for an upcoming exam or do other assignments instead. Not to mention that this is literally forcing students to scab their TAs

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        6 months ago

        All students send in a self assessment: Grade: A Justification: get fucked, you greedy scum.

  • Moonworm [any]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    So annoying how the students need to be taught and have their shit graded, it cuts into the amount of money the school can invest, why can’t they just pay tuition and not use the indoor rock-climbing gym?