Does your idea of public higher education include values like fairness and diversity? Yeah, me too. Ditto for the several hundred grad students drumming in the rain in Illinois today, after their union struck to defend tuition waivers.Get updates and join their 2,500 fans on the GEO Facebook page.
Charging tuition to working graduate students is essentially a pay-to-work scheme that would represent an educational death sentence for many grad students, as Robert Naiman at Huffpost puts it.
Noting that the administration’s refusal to bargain tuition security would fall most heavily on “out-of-state, minority, and foriegn graduate students,” AAUP president Cary Nelson walked the line with GEO this morning.
“The diversity that is the lifeblood of the campus is at stake,” he said.
This could be an interesting week, folks.
Couple things of note: the walk-out poster’s imperative to “escalate,” drawn from the language of the more radical UC Santa Cruz occupiers.
Plus all that dancing and drumming.
Recently:
- Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered
- Kindle or Netbook?
- Occupy the AHA!
- History “Job Czar” Shuts Down Phd Production (PhD “Oversupply” Continues For Two Decades)
- Who’s A Historian to the AHA?
- At the AHA: Huh?
- “I Re-wrote those Motherfuckers from Scratch”
- Spring Appearances
- UC Davis Occupiers Force Negotiations
- Students Occupy UC President’s Office
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