UC Santa Cruz fires grad students for unauthorized strike

[ucbalumnus]

@katliamom

^^^ @Nhatrang The UCs didn’t used to offer tuition waivers to their grad students. Grad students were expected to cover that from their own money whether through TA-ing, loans, working outside the university – or by applying for outside grants/fellowships.

I believe that the UCs only began offering tuition wavers in the 90s, as a way of remaining competitive with private elites – Stanford, Ivies - which did waive tuition AND offered (often very good) TA ships.

UC fees were also much lower before then (even out-of-state tuition was not that high back then).