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As a result of this practice, Mitchell says there is a surplus of Ph.D. candidates because colleges accept more graduate students to teach at reduced salaries but then do not offer them any opportunity for occupational advancement.
"For the time being, the more visibility wehave and the more graduate students we havespeaking out on this issue, the harder it is toignore us," Mitchell says. "We have to keepworking until Yale agrees to negotiate with us."
"The goal is really to change the process ofdecision making in the academy so that thedecisions respect the rights of all the people whoare involved," Mitchell says
"It seems that people are more concerned about the bottom line than about the academics," says Curtis Z. Mitchell, a second-year graduate student in Yale's mathematics department and chair of Yale's Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO).
Because graduate student workers are seldom full-time, they often are not covered by the policies protecting other employees. Mitchell sees "casualization" as the major problem facing Yale and other institutions currently.