This is important. Large R1 schools ask their graduate students to shoulder a significant, if not majority of the teaching workload, thus freeing up their faculties to pursue research and research funding. This, in turn means that they can continue to hire research superstars who will continue to obtain more and more…

“The benefits they receive far outweigh any advantage the University receives from student-performed teaching or research,” attorneys for Columbia wrote in one brief submitted to the NLRB.

I’m a grad student and a UAW member and I could not be happier about it. All unions are imperfect, but I have a safety net and a support system that help to guarantee my rights as an employee of this institution. If you’re going to base this whole funding thing on employment with the university, how am I supposed to…

Graduate students are not interns, that’s a load of BS. In my first year in graduate school, I was taking 3 classes, expected to attend two seminars a week, teach 3 lab classes weekly and conduct research. I was severely underpaid and survived because I was living in a cheap small Texas town. Universities are…

Well, no. Most workplaces these days have a “zero tolerance” policy for harassment. That’s, more or less, what a “safe space” is. Not a place where no one can disagree with you, it’s a place where people have to consider the feelings of others before they speak or act. Now, in most cases, you have to do this to some…

Schools are definitely taking advantage of grad students as employees in my experience. It’s funny—you sign a contract that states you are to work 20 hours a week at the start of the semester. Then when it turns into 30 hours a week the student has no recourse. Quite a few people went to the chair last year bringing…

“The benefits they receive far outweigh any advantage the University receives from student-performed teaching or research,”

“The benefits they receive far outweigh any advantage the University receives from student-performed teaching or research,”

It’s a great place to work, as evidenced by our employee retention. And I’ve worked at other companies with similar policies AND without. I mean, I can live without going into the break room and hearing a coworker talk about why he “doesn’t date black chicks.” And without hearing another coworker do his best…

Except ... safe spaces kinda do exist in the “real” world — in the form of the anti-harassment policies in the workplace. Mine, for example, trains us once a year on how we’re not allowed to discuss race, sex, politics, etc. and gives us tons of examples of “things you probably wouldn’t think twice about saying, but…

Right, but you actually do remove the spiders from your cupboard, as an adult in the real world. You don’t just regard being bitten constantly by spiders as the way of the world like some ineffectual fatalist. Universities should try to be better and more fair than the worst of society, not defer to the lowest common…

That should include preparation to deal with situations you are uncomfortable with. Sexual/workplace harassment and bullying, etc. It does occur and people who “adult” properly will be able to handle it.

The debate over safe spaces, too, has become cartoonized, a shorthand way to complain about privileged millennials

Related, Snoop Dogg is a really big fan of Mary Berry.

Her runway shows were super fun too - a departure from the dour haute couture. She featured models moving in groups, laughing, being like actual women.

You missed the best thing this morning.

I can’t believe 2016 is a real year that we’re all living through.

He should definitely be able to write off antacids and Pepto as work expenses if he itemizes his tax deductions.

Before you were born an ugly, warted old woman sat by the side of the road and asked for help changing a tire. Your parents stopped and changed it for the old woman, kindly. Then, before their very eyes-the old woman began to transform into the most beautiful fairy princess they had ever seen!

95% of why I choose a place is the food. The other 5% is whether I will actually be able to hear the people I’m with and not be shoved into someone’s armpit. Very few things matter to me less than “atmosphere.”