Osofsky is also seven and a half months pregnant. While she said she didn’t receive a dismissal letter, she said she has been striking and withholding grades. Luling Osofsky is also a PhD student in visual studies and a TA. “Everyone is watching what UCSC and the UC is going to do,” she said. Issa said she’s received numerous supportive phone calls. “It's a chain of events that makes it very possible to be deported,” Issa said. She relies on her student status to stay here. Sintia Issa, a fired TA and a PhD student from Lebanon, says she may not be able to afford her education. “It is extremely disappointing to us that we have to take such a drastic step, but we ultimately cannot retain graduate students as teaching assistants who will not fulfill their responsibilities,” wrote Interim Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer in a statement on February 28.īeing a TA includes health insurance and tuition remission. Dozens of TAs held out and the university says they were left with no choice. The university set a deadline a few weeks ago, turn in grades or lose your spring job.
The graduate teaching assistants are now in their fourth week of a teaching strike, but their actions began over two months ago when some decided to withhold grades. He's in support of the graduate students. Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the UCSC Center for Labor Studies addressed the crowd Monday.
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