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Voices from the Classroom: Graduate Students' Struggle with Poor Funding
Blog posts reflect the views of their authors.
Last year, the University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union and their members of a University committee on graduate student funding put together a broader call-out for letters to be sent to the administration and published talking about the burdens of higher education.
Students gave members' the right to publish these letters and, at the time, we did.
However, seeing as we're facing down a continuing TA strike, I think the best way to understand where people are coming from is to see their lived experience. So, I present that for you now:
About the poster
Brad Evoy (Brad Evoy)
Toronto
Member since October 2013
About:
Brad Evoy is a graduate student at the University of Toronto, blogger, writer, commentator, and sometimes firebrand. He has served as one of the Summer Membership and Admin. Coordinators for the Toronto Media Co-op and in the past has written for various other publications. Meanwhile, as an organizer, he's associated with the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG-Toronto) and Scientists for the Right to Know, along with past associations with various student organizations in two provinces.
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