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threequarterturn t1_j9m5jzv wrote

Reply to comment by Barmelo_Xanthony in Striking Temple University graduate students overwhelming vote down proposed contract by diatriose

Yep, I left grad school because my stipend was $12,000 a year in 2009, which was 20 hours on paper, but 40-60 hours in practice, and I wasn’t allow to work anywhere else. The math wasn’t mathing.

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Inevitable-Place9950 t1_j9o5zk7 wrote

Were any of those hours part of your own research for your final thesis/dissertation? Or was it all teaching/research and then you still had separate research to do for the degree?

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rtxj89 t1_j9o9i83 wrote

Yes it’s all of those combined

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Inevitable-Place9950 t1_j9oamrv wrote

That gets tricky in some fields because no one gets paid for their own research but I think especially in the sciences, there’s not really a bright line where the job ends and study begins. And that makes you guys easier to exploit.

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rtxj89 t1_j9oarw8 wrote

Uh they are absolutely paying us for our scholarship just not on paper. The research productivity would grind to a hauls with graduate funding.

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Inevitable-Place9950 t1_j9oifqi wrote

They don’t pay for students’ own research for their final projects; those in teaching or administrative assistantships get paid the same as researchers because the stipend is paid for the labor and studies for the final projects are on their own. But plenty of times the researchers choose (or I’m guessing are pushed into, I never signed up for a research one) a topic a professor is already working on to do their own project’s research and that’s where the line that’s clear for teaching and administrative assistants blurs for research assistants.

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