Mar 22, 2016
We need better advocacy for international students, particularly regarding professional development opportunities and our ability to work on campus.
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We need better advocacy for international students, particularly regarding professional development opportunities and our ability to work on campus.
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accountability
There’s no accountability in my department. I feel like I have no one to go to when there are internal departmental issues.
I am expected to TA even though I am on an external fellowship as part of degree requirements. I feel that I should be compensated fairly for this additional labor I perform for the department.
I’d really like better training for TAships
In my department, there’s a huge difference in TA assignments. People have really different responsibilities which leads to a large disparity in time commitments.
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A few years ago, I was at an event with members of the Corporation and at least one did not know there were Ph.D. programs at Brown. It was obvious that several others knew nothing beyond the simple fact that these actually did exist (I suppose an improvement over their colleague?) Little wonder that for many of my years here it felt like we were on the very low end of academic priorities here. #thesepeopleoverseetheuniversity #universitypriorities #whatgraduateschool?
#administrativefail
In one of many meetings with the dean of the graduate school regarding time to completion, he encouraged me to increase my publications by co-authoring journals with my adviser. He seemed to have zero comprehension of how the Humanities and some Social Sciences disciplines evaluate performance and credentials. But then again he also seems to have zero comprehension that graduate students are adults with lives and obligations unrelated to graduate work, which is probably why he told one of my colleagues in another meeting to just get on his parents’ insurance to cut costs. He’s 30 and married. I bet you’re thinking, “Maybe his true area of expertise is funding sources for underrepresented groups.” I hate to disappoint, but this is the same dean who had no idea what the Ford Fellowship was, much less that it is a potential resource for graduate students of color. Even upon learning about it, he expressed confusion as to why such a funding program was necessary.
I don’t trust Brown to provide useful support even on filing taxes as a grad student, let alone to intervene helpfully when conflicts between my health needs and the demands of my dissertation advisor have threatened my professional future and my well-being.