FIU Graduate Assistants Demand Better Pay
Lara Coiro / Staff Writer University graduate assistants who felt underpaid and ignored started a petition calling for higher stipends, reduction of graduate fees, a…
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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…
Graduate students struggling to get by in Miami on University stipend
A growing number of FIU graduate students are struggling to focus on their classes, buy groceries and pay bills with the stipends paid to them by the University’s Graduate School, which have not been raised in over 10 years. The struggle has led students to living in crowded houses, sacrificing their mental and physical health and even students leaving the University because they cannot afford to stay in school. Andres Gil, the dean of UGS, has received around 200 letters describing anxiety, depression, homelessness and unaffordable doctors visits by upset graduate students.
Graduate school establishes support system for underrepresented minority students
Concurrent with receiving its fifth award, the University Graduate School launched the Academy of Graduates for Integrative Learning Experiences to aid minority and underrepresented students in graduate education.
Panthers emotional sendoff goes without reward
As the final play ended, we saw something from the offense that we had not in the entire second half: fight.