An end to Penn's GSAS first years' "month of poverty"
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Benjamin M Merrill
4 years ago
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So glad to see other grad communities are lobbying for this from their universities; I'm a PhD student at UC San Diego, and this issue is so ridiculous across the UC system; admin cares little to not at all, so long as they can hike their own housing prices and feign sympathy.
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Samuel House Samore
6 years ago
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David Powell
7 years ago
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Ridiculous that this is still a thing. Penn has the money, just fix the payroll cycle.
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Sarah Nkemelu
7 years ago
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Had to take out a high interest credit card just to survive that first month back in 2013. It is absurd that the school expects people to float them for six weeks before paying a cent.
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Emma Teitelman
7 years ago
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Very happy to see this. The graduate union worked hard to articulate this problem and give graduate students a space to talk about it - including calling it the “month of poverty.” Especially if this petition is successful, I hope the graduate chairs will also credit GET-UP's organizing efforts and support its future mission, rather than erase the history of this political groundwork.
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Emily Neumeier
7 years ago
Ph.D. Art History 2018
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Carolyn Brunelle
7 years ago
Ph.D., Penn Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 2016.
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Aaron M Hagler
7 years ago
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Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History, Troy University
PhD, Penn NELC 2011
Student poverty is a problem everywhere. This is a simple step that Penn can take that will make the lives of its grad students easier.
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Maria Ryan
7 years ago
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As an incoming international graduate student in 2015 the September first stipend made my beginnings at Penn very difficult. My colleague and I could not afford furniture for our apartment until October. We just had two mattresses and two fold-out chairs in our apartment until we were paid, as all our savings had gone on paying first and last month rent plus deposit.
So glad to see other grad communities are lobbying for this from their universities; I'm a PhD student at UC San Diego, and this issue is so ridiculous across the UC system; admin cares little to not at all, so long as they can hike their own housing prices and feign sympathy.
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Ridiculous that this is still a thing. Penn has the money, just fix the payroll cycle.
Had to take out a high interest credit card just to survive that first month back in 2013. It is absurd that the school expects people to float them for six weeks before paying a cent.
Very happy to see this. The graduate union worked hard to articulate this problem and give graduate students a space to talk about it - including calling it the “month of poverty.” Especially if this petition is successful, I hope the graduate chairs will also credit GET-UP's organizing efforts and support its future mission, rather than erase the history of this political groundwork.
Ph.D. Art History 2018
Ph.D., Penn Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 2016.
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History, Troy University PhD, Penn NELC 2011 Student poverty is a problem everywhere. This is a simple step that Penn can take that will make the lives of its grad students easier.
As an incoming international graduate student in 2015 the September first stipend made my beginnings at Penn very difficult. My colleague and I could not afford furniture for our apartment until October. We just had two mattresses and two fold-out chairs in our apartment until we were paid, as all our savings had gone on paying first and last month rent plus deposit.
This is affecting your adjuncts as well!
Ph.D. Penn History 2018
Agreed
We demand this change immediately!
Ting-chih Wu
(Biomedical Graduate Studies)