FIU is setting graduate students up for failure
Andrea Rodriguez Romero | Contributing Writer As an upcoming senior with hopes of staying at my Alma Mater for my Master’s degree, to find out…
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FIU Hosts 6th Annual 3-Minute Thesis Competition
Abdul Malik & Luka Varazi | Contributing Writers The 6th Annual 3-Minute Thesis Competition was hosted on Friday, Jan. 27 at the Student Academic Success…
Faculty senate approves psychology master’s degree within existing Ph.D program
Elise Gregg | Editor-in-Chief The last faculty senate of the fall approved a new psychology program for graduate students at FIU. Starting next fall, doctoral…
Economics Conference Held to Expand More upon Research
Andres Davila & Conor Moore | Staff Writers The Department of Economics hosted the 5th annual Workshop in Applied and Theoretical Economics conference on Friday,…
The university unfairly cut graduate program funding
Kailey Krantz-Diaz | Staff Writer Some undergraduate students may want to continue their studies at FIU through their graduate program. However, they’ll have second thoughts…
Letter to the Editor: UGS’ springtime bonus and ‘subsidized’ on-campus housing is a joke
LuLu Victoria-Lacy and Randi Spiker | Grad Wages and Rights at FIU Life in Miami as a graduate student is a financial struggle. After paying…
Wait… My Professor Only Gets Paid How Much?
Caroline McCulloch/Guest Columnist Despite decades of skyrocketing tuition costs, a large segment of university instruction relies on precarious employment and meager wages. The most exploited…
Trying to Survive as an Adjunct
T.J. Ligouri/Guest Columnist and FIU Alum I’ve been an adjunct on and off for the past twelve years, teaching over 50 classes and over 1,500…
Poverty, The Biggest Threat to FIU Graduate Students
Tamanisha John/Guest Columnist and FIU Alum I entered graduate school coming from a low-income immigrant family background, where my relationship with money and budgeting, due…
Beware of UGS Bearing Gifts
Adam Ratzlaff/Graduate Student On the afternoon of September 8, 2021, the University Graduate School (UGS) emailed a memo to its PhD students indicating that it…