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If they are so rent-burdened, they should consider living with a roommate, or perhaps 2 or 3 roommates. Then they would be more easily able to afford basic nece
by cycrutchfield 7y ago
If they are so rent-burdened, they should consider living with a roommate, or perhaps 2 or 3 roommates. Then they would be more easily able to afford basic necessities.
- saagarjha 7y agoAt my university, graduate student housing is already like this. Graduate students are doing this already.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoGreat, that's as it should be. At your university, are graduate students able to afford such a living situation on their stipends?
- michaericalribo 7y agoI can’t speak to GP’s situation, but TFA makes clear that the university grad student housing available at UCSC in this specific real-world case is in fact not sufficient for the graduate students to afford such a living situation on their stipends.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoThen live off-campus? Or live in a 3 or 4 bedroom unit on-campus?
- asdff 7y agoAnd what do you know, the rents are still high. At what point do we realize that an administrator making 600k a year off the backs of people toiling long hours in labs to bring in grant money for the school and coming home to live in tenement conditions isn't the fault of the students, but the administrators making half a million dollars a year? Quite a hill to die on.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoAn administrator is paid that much because that is how much value they provide to the university system. A graduate student provides minimal value, in fact barely above replacement level. That’s why they are a student. Are you a grad student? And you never took an economics course? This is pretty basic material.
- charleslmunger 7y agoThat's a truism. It depends on the administrator, and in general executives and administrators aren't paid on the value they bring, but based on a sort of signalling game with the oversight board that determines their compensation. If pay was really based on value to the system, Chancellors that are fired or denoted under scandal wouldn't keep their pay. https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/the-public-eye/article168098682.html https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/the-public-eye/ar...
- asdff 7y agoI've seen graduate students bring in millions of dollars of federal grant money from the NIH, NSF, and the DOE that would have been awarded to other institutions had that grant student not written their proposal. I've seen schools take half of this grant money for overhead and use it to pay for administrative bloat under the pretext of 'keeping the lights on.'
- saagarjha 7y agoStudents at my university started striking four days ago.