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, as graduate students, must let BU know that we will not continue to stay silent while they continue to mistreat us. All graduate students are in desperate need of a wage increase to match the continuing increase in the cost of living. Minimally, all continuing graduate students should be given a $1,000 pay increase. We want BU to be held accountable for its actions. We will not let BU continue to walk all over us. If you agree with holding a rally outside the College of Arts and Sciences Building to let the Deans of CAS/GRS and BU know we will not continue to passively accept this outrageous mistreatment, please print your name, department, email, and office and home phone (everyone who supports this rally, whether a graduate student or not, should sign below as well).
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