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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Student-Worker Strike Repercussions - Part 5

The Sacramento Bee carries an article today about how departments are adapting to the cost implications of the recently-concluded student-worker strike settlement. 

...According to a survey by UAW Local 2865, academic workers from 89 departments across the UC system said they had learned of plans to cut graduate student enrollment next year. The union reported that many respondents said they’d heard undergraduate class sizes could increase, and research groups might shrink...

Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/equity-lab/article271899252.html.

The article contains a link to a PowerPoint slide show prepared by the physics department at UC-San Diego at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18GvaI5GEPyL_lBKocLJCDZzb5r3zMAW9/view

One slide in particular suggests the scope of potential reductions:


GSR = graduate student researcher; TA = teaching assistant; AR = academic researcher; PI = principal investigator.

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