Politics
KRAVITZ’S KORNER | Why Undergrads Should Be Against Graduate School Unionization
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The prospect of graduate student unionization at Cornell University is becoming a serious possibility. There has been much debate about the relative merits of this decision from the perspective of graduate students. In fact, Interim President Rawlings laid out his argument for why he feels it is not in their best interests to do so. But lost in this discussion is how a unionization of graduate students might adversely impact the undergraduate student body. Graduate student unionization may hurt undergraduate education
Graduate student teachers play a vital role in the education of undergraduates; they often offer the most direct and accessible source of academic assistance.