Graduate student workers at the University of Minnesota must pay outsize and mandatory fees amounting to 10% or more of their annual stipends, a percentage that has been rapidly increasing in recent years. Britt van Paepeghem (Ph.D. Candidate) and David Valentine (Associate Professor) from the Anthropology department explain why this is a bad deal forContinue reading “What Are Graduate Fees and Why Do They Continue to Increase?”
Category Archives: Tuition
The Criminalization of Student Activism
On Friday May 13, 2016, several students at the University of Minnesota attended a Board of Regents meeting to express our concerns about the skyrocketing costs of tuition. To make our case, a number of us added our names to a list of those who would be granted a 3-minute opportunity to address the BoardContinue reading “The Criminalization of Student Activism”
Minnesota Higher Education Worker Center 