OK but limiting - Graduate Teaching Fellow Boston University Employee Review

- Pay is limiting. You're not allowed to work any additional jobs. Making $20K and ONLY $20K in Boston is pretty low pay considering cost of living. This makes it hard to finish the academic program and a number of people have dropped out of my PhD program because of it. - Restrictions on not being able to work mean grad students no longer have the opportunity to teach their own courses at MET or other universities. This is seriously hurting graduates' abilities to secure jobs. In my field you HAVE to have teaching experience and now we are no longer allowed to get that. - Long hours when grading