Calling them “students” is not helping, the work is often part of their professors’ output. Maybe should be called research apprentices/assistants/interns or just PhD candidates.
This is the issue with how this whole thing is framed.
Of course the university doesn’t owe grad students anything besides an education.
But, being a grad student need not involve any teaching or professor research support. That’s labor. It’s customary labor that may be exchanged for education, but it is indeed an exchange of value for labor and subject to everything that entails.
Source: got a real grad degree without any of that BS just paid tuition (partially via my employers tuition reimbursement:)
Calling them “students” is not helping, the work is often part of their professors’ output. Maybe should be called research apprentices/assistants/interns or just PhD candidates.
This is the issue with how this whole thing is framed.
Of course the university doesn’t owe grad students anything besides an education.
But, being a grad student need not involve any teaching or professor research support. That’s labor. It’s customary labor that may be exchanged for education, but it is indeed an exchange of value for labor and subject to everything that entails.
Source: got a real grad degree without any of that BS just paid tuition (partially via my employers tuition reimbursement:)