AP: UC's academic workers strike brings stress to undergraduates

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1. I understand striking but...

They will be trading big bucks for a few for large layoffs.

The academic world is reeling from a lack of funds. State legislatures have cut post secondary education funding for decades. The sequester rules from not passing budgets have literally gutted research funding st the federal level, which is how most grad students and post docs have been paid.

So, where will the money have to come from? Tuition hikes on undergrad students to pay for people who have nothing to do with actually teaching them. Plus paying more money for graduate teaching assistant who aren't even required to take a single pedagogy class. Who will bear the brunt of this? The middle class trying to go to these state schools.

(On a side note. There will be HUGE fee increases at nearly all schools to underwrite athletic department budgets as the unintended but easily predicted effect of NIL for athletes. Since megadonors are giving huge piles of money to specific players (almost exclusively in football. Men's and women's basketball), they are no longer giving money to the athletic department as a whole. So, that list revenue will either be passed onto undergrad students or result in dismantling scholarship sports.)