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...main problem facing graduate students is their exclusion from the employment process, according to Connie M. Razza, a fifth-year graduate student in the English department at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a spokesperson for the Student Association of Graduate Employees-United Auto Workers (SAGE-UAW) at UCLA...
Nothing is so mundane that it can't be woven into a memoir. Maureen Murdoch teaches a course titled the Art of the Memoir through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, one of a dozen course offerings that cover everything from novelistic memoirs to personal essays. "As long as the tale has a universal theme, drama and insight," she stresses, "no incident is too small." Exemplifying these qualities are the stories of Yvette Audet, 66, a Maine widow who writes detailed accounts of her childhood: of rising before dawn on cold mornings to pick potatoes on neighboring farms, of kneeling nightly...
When she entered graduate school at UCLA five years ago to pursue a Ph.D. in English, Connie Razza, 26, hardly expected to be a campus activist. But she also didn't expect a workload like this: for one undergraduate literature course this semester, Razza gives lectures, runs a discussion section, grades papers and exams, and holds office hours in a basement room where 40 other teaching assistants share 29 desks and one computer. For 30 hours a week of such labor, she earns about $1,400 a month--which doesn't even cover her rent, tuition, books and car payments...
...Razza joined a drive to unionize UCLA's 1,700 nonprofessional instructors, most of them graduate students who double as teaching assistants. Last month they voted, 718 to 269, to get their union cards from the United Auto Workers. Similar unionization votes are scheduled at seven other U.C. campuses later this year. University administrators had threatened not to negotiate with the union but backed down after the vote. The UCLA vote was the latest in a string of labor victories on campus. Nationwide, graduate students have organized at close to 20 universities and colleges...
...more high tech now. About 20% of major universities offer online databases that help you find other alums who can offer guidance and assistance, says Cindy Chernow, director of the alumni career-services department at the University of California, Los Angeles. About 4,500 UCLA alums, out of 276,000 graduates, have volunteered to network online with other alumni. At Harvard's graduate business school, almost half the school's 60,000 alums have volunteered to advise other graduates seeking job changes through the school's two-year-old online database...