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Syracuse University has increased minimum wages for graduate student positions after more than a year of conversations between students and administrators.
SU’s Graduate Student Organization began discussions with the Graduate School last year about raising the minimum stipend for graduate student employees. This year, the university raised graduate assistantship stipends by an average of 2.5%, said Peter Vanable, dean of the graduate school, in an email to The Daily Orange.
But efforts to increase wages for graduate student employees at SU are years-old, and some students believe there’s still more work for the university to do. In 2018, GSO’s Employment Issues Committee found that 75% of graduate assistants earn less pay than the cost of attendance.