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Syracuse University has increased minimum wages for graduate student positions after more than a year of conversations between students and administrators.
SU’s Graduate Student Organization began discussions with the Graduate School last year about raising the minimum stipend for graduate student employees. This year, the university raised graduate assistantship stipends by an average of 2.5%, said Peter Vanable, dean of the graduate school, in an email to The Daily Orange.
But efforts to increase wages for graduate student employees at SU are years-old, and some students believe there’s still more work for the university to do. In 2018, GSO’s Employment Issues Committee found that 75% of graduate assistants earn less pay than the cost of attendance.
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Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch released an independent review of the Department of Public Safety on Monday, which outlines 23 recommendations for improving the department.
The 97-page report is the product of a year-long investigation into how the department interacts with members of the Syracuse University community and how officers interacted with students during protests on campus this past year.
Lynch served as attorney general under former President Barack Obama and is now a partner at the Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison law firm. She and her team spoke to students, DPS officers and university administrators and examined more than 20,000 documents in their review, she said in an interview with The Daily Orange.