Yeah, places like MIT are where I got the model. Seeing how my peers were treating at places that are not like MIT is how I got the motivation to care.
Tippy-top programs in any particular field already operate in a way that treats grad students more like students than itinerant labor.
It's the other 99% of institutions that are gutting scientific human capital in the name of empowering incompetent middle management. (Professors are middle management. Most of them are incompetent at that job.)
Tippy-top programs in any particular field already operate in a way that treats grad students more like students than itinerant labor.
It's the other 99% of institutions that are gutting scientific human capital in the name of empowering incompetent middle management. (Professors are middle management. Most of them are incompetent at that job.)