Virginia Tech Graduate Students Anonymous @GradsVt
A place for Virginia Tech graduate students to share their stories anonymously. DM us your stories! linktr.ee/gradsvt Blacksburg, VA Joined October 2021-
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Schedule for this weekends BOV meetings has dropped! See you all Sunday and Monday 🪄
Hate paying fees? We invite all VT students to come write cards to the people who want to raise our fees next year, like the Board of Visitors and VT's finance executives. Friday, November 3 from 4-7 pm in the Newman library coffee shop. Supplies, info & snacks provided!
So proud of VT grad students and all this hard work!!
So proud of VT grad students and all this hard work!!
be there or be square: sept 5, 1-4pm rally for a living wage & academic freedom meet on the GLC lawn follow @GradsVt for more info
Listen to undergraduate rep Will talk about housing and food insecurity and the understaffed SSD office. Very powerful. youtube.com/watch?v=fsNKGN…
Full calendar for bov meetings. Sorry for the late post. Please, if you go in person (independently or as part of the gpss carpool) please send us what you learn so we can share it.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 We've gotten a few messages about this... This one summed things up the best
From one of our followers on Instagram. International students are given an estimate for how much living here costs, but it assumes you have no medical or other emergencies. Staying alive in America is expensive.
This is actually the THIRD story we have gotten about mold issues in rentals that caused serious health problems for grad students.
I saw a whole year of grad students protesting and asking to remove the fees and/or increase our salary, and what we got was a “fuck you”.
I saw a whole year of grad students protesting and asking to remove the fees and/or increase our salary, and what we got was a “fuck you”.
The grads are not okay. As always we are still taking stories for people who want to share them.
From a follower on Instagram -- make sure you sign up for the health insurance the correct way
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This is *still* not a living wage for VT graduate students.
Big news: VT has proposed a $2,420 minimum monthly stipend for grad students to start Fall 2023 (21.7k over 9 months, 29k over 12) bov.vt.edu/assets/Materia…
Small announcement, I’ve been offered an internship for the VT Coastal Collaborator Center doing research on coastal resiliency for the summer. I’m astounded and so grateful for the opportunity. I look forward to a summer on the ocean learning about floods and erosion 🌊📓💙
Virginia Tech grad students and staff organized to hold signs behind every camera in the board meeting to remind admin that we are have a corporeal stake in their decisions. They will see us #VTBOV
I’m sitting at work watching @virginia_tech’s 14 board of directors (13 are governor appointed) pretend they aren’t looking at other screens while grad students talk about the poverty those admin have control over. Eat the fucking rich. #VTBOV
Lol @virginia_tech hosts a “public” workshop on tuition & fees & an hour before links a livestream instead of a zoom link, & the grad students registered to speak were given zoom links… without the ability to use the chat. Lol that is neither public nor a workshop 🤡 #VTBOV
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And the most important thing is that there are fresh faces taking on the work for next year and continuing to make change. So if you want to fight for a living wage at your university, drop your name or hit me up so we can keep the momentum going.
of graduate students who were not politically engaged before. Faculty tried to get me fired and we got ten weeks of targeted harassment (antisemitism, misogyny, racism, threats, the usual) over it, but we did it.
Wrapped up my term with the grad student senate tonight, working inside the system is terrible. My team and fellow organizers made over $400 million dollars worth of changes over the next 10 years at Virginia Tech, secured over a dozen equity wins, and mobilized hundreds
Dear PhD programs that pay $20-30k/yr & force students to sign docs that they "won't work a 2nd job": Everyone works a 2nd job anyways. If you don't want us working 2nd jobs just...oh IDK...pay us enough? Grad schools are so out of touch with reality JS @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter
Something I realized this week was that a lot of people in our department actually think that people leave the PhD program because of external factors, because it is easier to believe that a PhD "isn't for everyone" - to be frank, baby that is white supremacy! 😅
Please don't suggest that introverted people want to, need to, or should be more extroverted. We don't. We want to exist & express exactly how we are. Acting as others is tiring & terrible for our mental health. Create healthier environments by encouraging individual expression.
People are saying grad students need hobbies, but what if I feel too isolated, depressed, and exhausted to have the energy to do these things? All I want to do after work/ school (other than taking long walks and going to the gym) is lay down in bed. #PhDChat #DisabledInSTEM
The tireless work of the graduate students has paid off! Despite major opposition, we have convinced enough of the UC to vote yes and committ VT to providing a livable wage for all grad students! We did this and we did it together so fucking congrats to us 🎉
Just the gross incompetence of faculty who clearly didn't read the wage resolution, having "questions" answered in the resolution. This is the diligence they tout when they say Virginia Tech is an R1.
The Virginia Tech University Council has passed the Living Wage Resolution. There will be a task force established to explore wage increases for VT grad students. Shout out to all the grad students who did work on this, especially our @VTGPSS senators 🙌🏻✊🏻
The grad students at VT won a living wage, and now the hard work of getting the follow through begins. Could not be prouder of my colleagues and the success we've had despite massive opposition. This is a sea change and it shows that grad students can advocate/agitate effectively
If you're considering a career outside academia, never ask a professor for advice. They know nothing. It's like asking a heavy smoker how to quit smoking. @AcademicChatter
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