About 1,100 graduate teaching assistants are instructing students, according to the Graduate Teaching Assistant Coalition, the GTA bargaining unit. They are worried and in some cases “terrified” that their education, as well as the education of undergraduate students, is in jeopardy if the university follows through with plans to cover a $75 million budget loss with them on the chopping block. The coalition says the university plans to strip 440 — or 40% — of them of their tuition waivers and teaching stipends.
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