Working full-time with a toddler while also attending grad school during a pandemic in a country teetering on the edge of collapse due to decades of escalating social injustice is maybe starting to affect my mental state.
Student parents are ~2x as likely to drop out. 70% cannot afford childcare or other basic needs.
Thankful for our panelists for sharing the challenges of parenting in grad school at today's breakfast. And for the admin & faculty who listened & promised to support us! #Rutgers
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! It's day 279 w/o contract. We are cont. bargaining on grad issues today. Yesterday management tried to tell us we should be grateful for our pay compared to other BigTen schools. We do not measure up so well when compared to comparable local research Institutions.
I'm looking at a transcript of Biden's State of the Union: It has four sentences on abortion rights. Four.
By comparison, the speech has 19 sentences on 'junk fees'