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These things come at a cost. If the cost of grad students goes up, we'll see some combination of the following: 1 - Less grad students. 2 - More undergrads do
by mathattack 9y ago
These things come at a cost. If the cost of grad students goes up, we'll see some combination of the following:
1 - Less grad students.
2 - More undergrads doing the work of grad students.
3 - More adjuncts doing the work of grad students.
4 - Grad students being asked to do more.
The irony is this is happening at the great home of Price Theory!
- Ar-Curunir 9y agoThe cost could be offset by administrators not taking a huge cut. Quite literally these administrators do nothing of worth; it's the work of grad students and not-yet-tenured professors that keeps universities rhnning., Not the endless circles of bureaucrats
- alphaalpha101 9y agoI don't think it's at all ironic that the home of the failed ideology of neoliberalism is the place this is happening.
- ntsplnkv2 9y agoWill we? Grad students are major drivers of funding and research for universities. Cutting them will reduce that funding further and make them look worse nationally as an institution. Perhaps undergraduates SHOULD be welcome to do more of the work? I see no problem with offering cheap workstudies to help grad students and professors getting the little things done while they research and learn. Adjunct professors might be a good thing-many tenured professors disdain teaching and it shows. Grad students won't be asked to do more than they agree to because they have a union.
- tomjen3 9y agoGrad students are already the cheapest, and universities are flushed with cash and can't outsource so while they may cut a bit on the numbers mostly they will have to suck it up.