TAs at Teachers College say raise is still not enough - Tracey Wang, Columbia Daily Spectator

The Teachers College administration raised teaching assistants’ pay by $200 and established new guidelines for their workloads, but some still feel that their pay and work conditions are minimal relative to the Columbia equivalent. Teachers College increased the salary of its teaching assistants this year, but many of the college’s TAs—who are officially called course assistants—say the raise isn’t nearly enough for the amount of work that they do. Following widespread student frustration and a series of articles published by Spectator last year, TC administrators agreed to raise course assistants’ base compensation from $800 to $1,000 per semester. But TC course assistants say that $1,000 is too low, especially given that they’re often asked to do far more than they’re supposed to. http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/12/07/tas-teachers-college-not-enough-say-raise-still-not-enough