UI instructors should deliver on policies

Maybe if the foreign TA's would learn English, undergrads would pay attention to the course more. I have sat in countless 100 level courses during my academic career where none of us understood what the TA was saying. This is especially applicable in the Math Department. A little advice for the Grad Students. You won the battle. You got your contract with the majority of what you asked for. Stop fanning the flames. You accuse undergrads of acting like babies but Grad Students have been doing the same. Even after the strike was over, you keep talking about how you have been wronged. IT IS OVER ALREADY. Act like adults now and try to bridge the rift that was created between Grad Students and Undergrads in my eyes by both the Administration and GEO. Both parties are guilty in my eyes. A note for the Administration In your recruitment materials, you should put in fact how many courses are taught by TA's. I seriously screwed not knowing this before hand. I would have NEVER came here if I knew truly how the campus functioned. I am glad to be out of here in three weeks. Good Riddance.

My instructors already do that. Welcome to the world of personal responsibility.

Learning is not a service or a product that an instructor provides in return for the payment of your fees. Learning is something that an instructor fosters in you, the student. If learning is akin to a product in any way, then it is produced by both student and instructor. You can't help to produce your own learning if you don't show up.

Letrell Crittenden's degree is certainly not in business, at least I pray that it is not.

Perhaps Letrell does not understand that when a person (student, or thier parents) pay for a promised service it is up to the service provider (The University via thier faculty, staff, TA's, assistants, etc) to make what is promised available. The individual or group that pays for the service has every right to take full or partial advantage of that service.

The service provider has no right or abiality for that matter to force a purchaser to take advantage or not take advantage of what they provide.

Would it make sense for Verizon, AT&T, etc. to dock you for unused minutes, or McDonalds charge you for not finishing your big Mac? Of course not.

The only part of your whole letter that even approached making sense is the part where a student may direclty or indirectly prevent another student from taking advantage of education that they paid for.

I get what you are saying, but no need to fan the flames anymore, eh? Remember, the grad students and the undergrads need not be pitted against one another! And we grad students, in my opinion, need to take the lead in healing the rift that the admin tried to create.

Of course, we as instructors should make students earn their grades in our classes. Otherwise, their degrees are worth nothing. But in this moment, let's celebrate our gains.