Listen "Student Fees: Paying to Work"
Episode Synopsis
Stony Brook, the New School, and Baruch College are among some of the schools where graduate students have started to protest in order to abolish fees; similar protests continue on a number of college campuses throughout the United States. In this episode, we discuss the harsh reality of student fees. Should graduate workers, who are not so different than school administration and staff, have to pay fees? Are we financially secure enough to allocate part of our already limited budget for services that the university then offers to both faculty and students (while only charging students)? In this episode, we look at the history of tuition and fees in the US and listen to the first-hand experience of two members from the graduate unions at Stony Brook and SUNY Buffalo, who are both actively a part of the organized movement against fees.
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