PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs

Re:PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover... by milesskorpen on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:24PM (#31483035)

Part of the issue is TOO MUCH governance. We have loaded colleges down with regulations and requirements, which then require administrators to handle these rules. Most of these administrative roles are not optional (at least not if you don't want to get sued).

Most of these requirements independently make sense, but the sum impact weighs down universities and drives up cost.

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Re:PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover... by rch on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:37PM (#31483236)

Factually unsupported cynical take: Without the made up jobs there would be even less of a market for the type of non-STEM graduates public universities like to produce.

The regulations provide the justification for the jobs program needed to soak up the excess supply of non-trade graduates generated by overenthusiastic student loan policy.

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Re:PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover... by SoftTalker on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:34PM (#31483877)

> Most of these administrative roles are not optional (at least not if you don't want to get sued.

They are mostly not optional if you want to receive federal funding. There are some small colleges that are totally private, do not take government funds, and so don't have to implement and administer many government regulations.

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