geekhyena:

smilesandvials:

caffeinatedcraziness:

For all American grad students who get tuition waivers.

This is extremely important for you to be aware of. Please spread the word.

Source: Twitter

Right now, I don’t think I know anybody who wouldn’t quit if this passed. Schools would lose their TAs and RAs en mass.

This would also make it impossible for disabled grad students – I can’t have roommates because of celiac (I tried, it didn’t work out), and so 2/3 of my paycheck goes right back out as rent.  And I make even less than this guy per year – I make 25-28k/year in one of the worst CoL places in America.  This will wreck the ability of people to go into research. This will make it even worse for people with medical expenses who want to go to school.

Well, Republicans wanted to destroy universities, right? Because they’re bastions of liberal and leftist thought (reality having a well-known liberal bias).

The way universities could possibly get around it is to change the way it looks on paper: instead of (officially) comping tuition, they’d waive it. But I don’t know exactly how the accounting works on that end, or whether that would be possible especially at public universities.