Governator's move

Wow.

If I were a TA, I'd be sweating right now. When I was in grad school, I didn't have much in the way of savings to fall back on if my assistantship got taken away right before a rent payment was due. I've got to imagine that the heads of the various California universities are doing whatever they can to make sure this doesn't happen.

This can't apply to students paid on RA's using federal funds, can it? They must be classified as student assistants, but can the Governor force NASA or NSF funded positions to be terminated?

I bet Arnie has everyone's attention now...

"Student Assistant" is more likely to refer to work-study undergrads. Graduate students drawing a salary tend to have job ranks like "Graduate student instructor" or "Graduate student researcher," but to know more you have to know the UC personnel manuals.

Did you see the bit about Cal Grants?

Supposedly this will take effect in September or so if it
happens.

I am amused that Ben knows a lot about the UC personnel manuals. I have some decent guesses about what may have brought that on....

I'm thinking that the outcome may depend on the SEIU lawsuit, and/or vary from college system to college system (Community College network versus California State University system versus UC system) as to whether or not TAs are in a collective bargaining agreement. Also, there are gray area job titles such as Adjunct Professor, Instructor, and various other flavors of Temp. In a sense, this evolved because making an offer to even an Associate Professor is about a $10^6 commitment in salary and benefits, hence the various flavors of Temp kick the problem down the road. Until the chickens come home to roost. Which seems to be happening now.

As goes California, so goes New York and Illinois and Nevada and Michigan, and maybe Florida or Texas.