Boundless

  • Inflation
  • Tutorials and Labs
  • Financial Uncertainty
  • Exploitation
  • Discrimination
  • Michelle

    Michelle

    Students shouldn't have to decide between textbooks and rent.

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  • Sara

    Sara

    Why are big tutorials and labs so prohibitive to learning?

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  • Alex

    Alex

    Boundless innovation cannot be achieved with boundless financial uncertainty.

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  • James

    James

    Unleashing the potential of graduate students requires recognizing the value of their research.

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  • Lanna Jin

    Lanna

    International students pay twice what domestic students pay and face more barriers to earning the same degree.

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  • Ellen Dyer

    Ellen

    To be a world-class institution, U of T must equitably support its frontline researchers: graduate students.

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  • RSS Bargaining News

    • New Unit 1 Wage Rates March 21, 2012
      Please see the new wage rates. established in recently ratified CUPE 3902 Unit 1 Collective Agreement.   Retro payments for this past year will be made on the April pay run.   […]
    • Unit 1 Membership Ratifies Tentative Settlement March 7, 2012
      Results: 1797 Unit 1 members voted in the ratification vote with 1197 (67%) voting in favour of ratification and 600 voting against. The details of this agreement are summarized here: http://cupe3902.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Summary-of-Tentative-Agreement.pdf The full memorandum of settlement can be viewed here: http://cupe3902.org/wp-content/uploads/2 […]
    • Ratification vote poll locations and times March 4, 2012
      Polls will be open Monday, 5 March and Tuesday, 6 March. The result of the vote will be announced as soon as possible following the closing of the polls.  Members should ensure that they bring photo identification. POLLING INFORMATION Monday … Continue reading → […]
    • Ratification FAQ March 2, 2012
      Questions relating to the ongoing ratification vote and its consequences. Q: When will the polls open and for how long? A: The polls were open after the conclusion of the Unit-1 Membership Meeting on Friday, February 24 and will reopen … Continue reading → […]
    • Unit-1 Bargaining Bulletin # 16 February 29, 2012
      UNIT-1 MEMBERS SEND TENTATIVE AGREEMENT TO RATIFICATION On Friday, 24 February, the close to 1,000 members of Unit 1 gathered at Convocation Hall voted overwhelmingly to send a tentative agreement to a unit-wide vote. The agreement, which has the full … Continue reading → […]
    • Message from CRO: Unit 1 Tentative Agreement Referendum Details February 27, 2012
      Fellow Members of CUPE Local 3902, Unit 1, On Friday February 24, a meeting of Unit 1 Members resolved  to send  a proposed collective agreement, recommended by the Local’s Bargaining Committee, to the general membership to ratify or reject as … Continue reading → […]

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This site is inspired by University of Toronto’s “Boundless” fundraising campaign. That campaign describes a university of boundless possibilities and potential, but education workers here live a different story. We know a university of boundless financial uncertainty, boundless discrimination, and boundless tutorial and lab sizes. If you donate to the university, please leave a message in support of teaching assistants and CUPE 3902.

 

The Boundless Index

Number of graduate students who are part of CUPE Local 3902 (teaching assistants, lab demonstrators, course instructors, accessibility workers, invigilators): 4,200+

TUTORIALS

Percentage of tutorials with more than 50 students: 24.3%

Percentage of tutorials with more than 35 students: 41.8%

Number of tutorials with more than 100 students: 100

Percentage of tutorials with fewer than 20 students in 2006: 40%

Percentage today: 23%

GRADUATE RESEARCH FUNDING

Low-income cut-off (poverty line) for a family of one in Toronto (2010): $18,930

Funding-package guarantee (salary) of graduate-student workers in years 1-4: $15,000 plus fees

Average salary of top 50 U of T Administrators: $304,077.33 (+ $5,574.67 fringe benefits)

SENIOR STUDENTS

Average number of years it takes to finish a PhD at U of T: 6

Funding-package guarantee (salary) for graduate students in years 5 or 6: $0.00

Year the Doctoral Completion Grant was eliminated: 2010

Number of years the Doctoral Completion Grant had been in place: 10

Tuition and fees paid by domestic graduate students at U of T: $8,041 (increasing at 4%) per year

Tuition and fees paid by international students at U of T: $17,922.36 (increasing at 5%) per year

Tuition and fees paid by graduate students at McGill University: $3,792.77