{"id":84209,"date":"2022-11-29T13:12:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=84209"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:17:14","slug":"how-the-university-of-california-strike-could-reshape-higher-education-reilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/11\/29\/how-the-university-of-california-strike-could-reshape-higher-education-reilly\/","title":{"rendered":"How the University of California Strike Could Reshape Higher Education [Reilly]"},"content":{"rendered":"

How the University of California Strike Could Reshape Higher Education<\/strong><\/a> — from news.yahoo.com by Katie Reilly<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo have this many workers on strike is really something new in higher education,\u201d says Rebecca Givan, an associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers, who is also president of the union for graduate workers and faculty at her university. \u201cThe willingness of these workers to bring their campuses to a standstill is demonstrating that the current model of higher education can\u2019t continue, and that the current system really rests on extremely underpaid labor.\u201d
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\nThe striking workers argue that their current pay makes it challenging to afford housing near their universities, in a state with one of the highest costs of living in the country. Jaime, the Ph.D. candidate, says he makes $27,000 per year as a teaching fellow and pays $1,200 in monthly rent for an apartment he shares with two roommates. (Median rent in the Los Angeles metropolitan area is about $3,000,\u00a0according to Realtor.com.) \u201cWe are the ones who do the majority of teaching and research,\u201d he says. \u201cBut nevertheless, the university doesn\u2019t pay us enough to live where we work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also relevant\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Hundreds of UC Faculty Members Stop Teaching as Strike Continues<\/strong><\/a> — from chronicle.com by\u00a0\u00a0Grace Mayer<\/p>\n

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The strike is shining a spotlight on a longstanding problem within higher education: Today, tenured, full-time faculty members make up a smaller percentage of university employees than they did 50 years ago, in part due to the financial pressures facing universities amid funding cuts. The proportion of other university employees, who receive less job security and lower pay, \u201chas grown tremendously,\u201d says Tim Cain, an associate professor at the University of Georgia\u2019s Institute of Higher Education, who studies campus activism and unionization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s such stratification between the tenured full professor and a graduate student employee or a postdoc or a tutor,\u201d says Cain. \u201cThey\u2019re doing a great deal of the work, and the work that they\u2019re doing in the classroom is often very similar to the work of others who are getting paid substantially more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Speaking of schools in California, also see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n