Protecting Grad Student Employees

by E Wayne Ross on September 21, 2009

Inside Higher Ed: Protecting Grad Student Employees

Graduate student employees would have expanded due process and informational rights, under a draft plan released Tuesday by the American Association of University Professors to amend its recommended policies for colleges and universities on academic freedom and tenure.

The AAUP’s statement on academic freedom has long included provisions about the work done by graduate students as teaching or research assistants. But the association decided to revise the statement to reflect changes in higher education.