The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including English, history and sociology.
@fossilesque so a fair compensation for work (=research if you are a PhD candidate) is too expensive for BU, they claim. (Raises the question: what do their professors earn? Will they stay if they cannot take on PhD candidates?)
@fossilesque so a fair compensation for work (=research if you are a PhD candidate) is too expensive for BU, they claim. (Raises the question: what do their professors earn? Will they stay if they cannot take on PhD candidates?)