[1276] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Technology Fees (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wally)
Fri Apr 5 10:36:16 2002
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:22:51 -0500
From: Wally <wally@SUB-ZERO.MIT.EDU>
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seems like a reasonable investment of a few minutes if you'd like. dunno
about 'technology fees' themselves at mit, but there are certainly
analogous cases of asshole fees that appeared out of nowhere...
w.
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:09:41 -0500
From: L. D. McReynolds <lmcrey@wam.umd.edu>
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To: H-GRAD@H-NET.MSU.EDU
Subject: Technology Fees
DATE: Friday, April 5, 2002
FROM: Chris Robe' crr2@Lehigh.EDU
SUBJECT: Technology Fees
Hi all,
I am from Lehigh University. A group of us graduate students are
particularly angry in the way in which our university is implementing a
$200 technology fee on us-- no tuition remission, no discussion of
alternative ways to fund it, etc. We have been opposing the
administration for the past year, and it has come time for me to write
an article for the on-line journal *Workplace* about how the corporate
university zaps one of its lowest-paid employees (or, as the
administration classifies us, "apprentices") for a fee that they cannot
afford and have not been asked if they event want it.
I want the article not to be limited to my university but to all
universities across the United States. If you have been involved in
problems with your administration in regards to technology fees, please
tell me your story so that I can include it. The more we share this
information, the more we can fight the new and creative ways in which
administrators take advantage of graduate students' economic conditions
for their own CV's.
For example, when we asked our administration,
"Why didn't you just raise tuition? Most of us would have then been
covered by our tuition remission and not have to pay out-of-pocket."
The reply was, "The President claimed that he wasn't going to raise
tuition, and he is not going to raise tuition"-- although, you see, he
is, by sneaking in a fee that undergraduates are unaware of and taking
advantage of the relative apathy of graduate students. Our President
can claim that he never raised tuition, increase his revenue by
$700,000, and further alienate graduate students from their campus
community.
If you are reluctant to write to this message board, send me your own
experiences at: Crr2@lehigh.edu.
Thanks for your help. If you want any information from me about our
fight against this, please feel free to write.
Chris Robe'
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