Adjunct assistant professor, Bard Prison Initiative

American Association of University Professors

These workers deserve a fair wage!

Any year without a cost-of-living increase is effectively a pay cut. Graduate students deserve a living wage, every year, not just when it's convenient. Graduate student working conditions are not only student learning conditions, but a core investment in the future of the profession and the industry that depends on them.

American Association of University Professors, UCSC alumna

As a proud graduate of UCSC, I care about the quality of education and quality of life for all its workers. California needs to invest in and support graduate student employees.

As a former grad student who has student debt and will for at least another decade because of an insufficient living allowance in an expensive city (DC), I keenly understand your struggle. UC can use its billions in endowment for the right things -- students, teaching, and learning. Solidarity.

President, American Association of University Professors

University of Nebraska at Kearney

The Graduate Center, CUNY

Associate Professor of English, Georgetown University

California Institute of the Arts

University of California Davis

University of California, Irvine

Howard Community College

USC School of Cinematic Arts

SUNY Stony Brook University

Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University

Fordham University (UCSC alum)

AAUP Issue Campaigns Organizer and UCSC Cowell College Alum

Solidarity with striking UCSC grad workers!

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Franklin & Marshall College

As a UCD PhD ‘16 I fully support the need for COLA necessary to live in CA, and for recruiting and retaining graduate students.

Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice (Lakehead University)

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland

California State University San Marcos

Solidarity from the Midwest!

University of Illinois at Chicago

Stop acting like the 1% and start acting like public servants.

Carnegie Mellon University

Bridgewater State Univeristy (UC Santa Cruz 2013 alum)

University of Illinois-Chicago

Department of History, Montclair State University -- AFT Local 1904

University of New Mexico Department of Sociology

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Massachusetts Boston

California State University, Sacramento

Solidarity forever! I was a graduate student at UCSC (PhD, 2017) and the lack of proper pay for graduate student duties was a significant strain on my mental and physical health, as well as my ability to contribute to my field and prepare for the next step in my academic trajectory. I often had 2 or 3 jobs on top of my TAship in order to pay the rent. One of those jobs was at a dive bar, which was rather unsafe and also was a considerable drag on my energy to do my academic work. I often worked with students (as colleagues, and also my undergrad students) who were homeless due to the astronomical cost of living in Santa Cruz. Everyone should be able to pay for housing where they live, and the UC has a responsibility to pay grads enough to live near their campus. PAY THEM! #cola4all

Graduate Employees Organization

Lecturer, Brown University

University of South Carolina

California State University, Sacramento

Brooklyn College (PSC-CUNY)

University of Alaska Anchorage

Wesleyan University, Postdoctoral Fellow

UMass Boston, Faculty Staff Union

I stand with the brave graduate workers at UCSC!

I SUPPORT THE STUDENTS

Reed College (UC-Berkeley PhD'13)

Assistant Professor of Art, Williams College

Please support the graduate students!

In solidarity with our colleagues in California.

University of Victoria (UCSC Alum)

UCSC Alum and Former Staff

UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA

Continue the struggle until victory!

AAUP, Ohio Conference, president

All of our universities need to start investing in the academic mission.

UC Davis, Asian American Studies

University of Massachusetts Boston

Pay the COLA NOW! Support striking workers!

Rutgers University (and former UCSB faculty member)

South Puget Sound Community College (UCSC alum)

Asian American Studies, UC Davis; Bulosan Center, UC Davis

the public science project, graduate center cuny

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

The UC system cannot exist without the hard work and labor of students, staff, researchers and others. Their demands are not just reasonable but just/fair and in order for the UC system to function and excel in an equitable and inclusive manner, it needs to genuinely listen to and engage with the individuals raising the just demands.

I stand with the Teaching Assistants at UCSC and the faculty who support them.