Dear President Schill, Provost Hagerty, Dean Mayo and Dean Randolph, “Northwestern deeply values the contributions that graduate students make to its research and teaching missions” — this is your purported stance toward graduate workers that you have reiterated time and again. Yet, upper-year graduate workers are currently being denied the ability to work and do.
Close to 500 Northwestern community members gathered outside Silverman Hall Monday afternoon for a “Pay, Power, and Protections NOW!” rally hosted by Northwestern University Graduate Workers. Last week, the University canceled a full-day bargaining session with NUGW originally scheduled for Tuesday. The session was expected to cover the union’s economic proposals, which include comprehensive health.
Second-year Ph.D. student in history Alison Choi said she felt physically and mentally relieved after finishing the teaching assistant requirement for graduate students. Choi said going to campus four days a week took a lot out of her along with the need to be accessible to her students through office hours or virtually. “Figuring out.