This semester the Boston College Graduate Employees Union launched a petition demanding better health care. Boston College provides woefully inadequate health care for its graduate workers, and the recent change in coverage is the latest example of the administration’s needless austerity. Given the administration’s decision to remove the mask mandate despite record cases of COVID-19…
A previous policy change, made in early August, announced that fourth- and fifth-year teaching fellows would not be eligible for coverage in the upcoming academic year.
“This is going to establish a trend, a pattern, and a precedent,” Gary N. Chiason, a professor at Clark University, told The New York Times.
The proposal calls for a 1.4 percent excise tax on the endowments generated by large, private institutions, such as BC. The University announced in September that its endowment had reached $2.4 billion.
On Wednesday evening, graduate students at Boston College received awards for their work as teaching assistants.
On Friday afternoon, BC graduate students recounted their experiences in and joy in confronting societal problems.
