Continuing graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University are paid from $9,500 (humanities) to $10,500 (sciences) per school year to teach discussion and laboratory sections (and sometimes even lecture, write and grade lecture exams). Given this large contribution towards teaching at BU, graduate students are seriously underpaid. Moreover, starting with the Fall 1997 semester, BU has decided to start paying new graduate student teaching fellows $1,000 more per school year than current teaching fellows ignoring the increased experience of the latter. BU is paying this wage increase to new TF because other universities in the area pay more, in essence recognizing the inadequacy of our current salary.
We, the undersigned, call upon the administration at Boston University to recognize the value of the work performed by teaching fellows and to pay all TF fairly. In particular, we demand an increase of $1,000 annually for all continuing graduate students.
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