If I were in a position to make a significant gift, I would be more inclined to make it to the graduate students (e.g. through a strike fund, or other means).
I graduated from the University of California at San Diego more than 45 years ago. I graduated with honors, and I was proud to be a UCSD graduate. After I started working, I made (modest) contributions to UCSD's scholarship funds. I stopped doing that after Janet Napolitano was named president of the University of California.
It makes me sad that the University of California seems to be determined to join the Ivy League schools in becoming a hedge fund with a minor side business in education.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/...
I suspect it would take a lot more than one "A strike" to substantially impact a school's reputation.
It's a dereliction, not compliance. Your job is to sincerely, fairly, and justifiably assign grades, and not arbitrarily.
They’re not getting genuine feedback on their work.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe45b/graduate-student-s...
>Like the UC Santa Cruz strike, the UC Santa Barbara work stoppage is a “wildcat” strike, meaning that graduate students are acting separately from the United Auto Worker (UAW) 2865, the union which represents more than 19,000 workers across the UC system.
I thought that was a mistake somehow, but it turns out that, yes, the UC students are organized as a branch of UAW despite not being auto workers.
Donations that are earmarked to help students are in the form of scholarships and bursaries. To be honest, there aren’t nearly enough of those to go around.
$2500 a year is a slap in the face to the $1800 / month the students were demanding.
Something needs to change there. For the Midwest small college town where I went $20,000-30,000 was plenty (for people without kids at least). I imagine it’d be a lot harder in CA coastal cities.
I didn’t realize most strikes were sanctioned...
They mean not sanctioned by the union leadership in this case.
https://twitter.com/payusmoreucsc/status/1234130912281010176...
This led me to believe that grad student unions were not a particularly useful way of dealing with issues affecting graduate students.
It seems like they're willing to pay extra money but not via a wage increase?
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-why-gove...
Additionally, the students at this campus voted with an 80% majority against the prior contract that the union had negotiated on behalf of grad students at all campuses simultaneously. Students at other campuses with lower cost of living are not squeezed nearly as much.
