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Re:NLRB rules graduate students are employees by panglott on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:42PM (#12347424)
In the humanities, 75% of courses are taught by grad students and adjuncts. I think the split between them is about half and half.

An overwhelming percentage of the actual work of higher education is done by grad students and contingent faculty.

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Re:NLRB rules graduate students are employees by nommm-nommm on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:47PM (#12347480)
This varies by school. In my school, from what I saw, 0% of humanities courses were taught by grad students. I only had an adjunct professor once and it was for a CS class. He wasn't a grad student either.
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Re:NLRB rules graduate students are employees by takk309 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:46PM (#12347465)
In engineering, at least at the school I attended, very few classes were taught directly by TA/grad students. Again, just a difference in department/field.
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