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One of the problems is that universities exploit graduate students as cheap labor in teaching and research while they're in school, so the universities have an
by lapcat 1y ago
One of the problems is that universities exploit graduate students as cheap labor in teaching and research while they're in school, so the universities have an incentive to admit more incoming students than can be placed in academic jobs.
- Simulacra 1y agoAnd then charge undergraduates more, making them take classes they don't need, in order to justify paying those graduate student GTAs.
- lapcat 1y agoI'm puzzled by this response to my comment about the cheapness of grad student labor. Grad students are doing work that would otherwise have to be performed by full professors, who are vastly, vastly more expensive than grad students. So in my opinion, to blame undergraduate tuition on graduate students just seems... bizarre?
- musicale 1y agoUnderpaid grad students and postdocs are the dirty-but-not-exactly-secret source of research productivity per dollar in the US. But the pyramid is unsustainable even if each PhD only trains one or two new PhDs every 5 years.