University of Pennsylvania and Penn administrators agreed to a $49,000 minimum annual stipend and a minimum hourly rate of $25.

Graduate Employees Together at UPenn released a survey to determine graduate student workers’ top concerns for the union bargaining committee to incorporate into its negotiations. The survey asks ...

Provost Patrick Wolfe and Treasurer Chris Ruhl recently announced several investments targeted to increasing graduate student stipends. Implementation plans are in development, but several high-level ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Over the past year, several University of Kentucky graduate students have been fighting for a pay increase for graduate workers, but some of those students said they were told ...

Higher education experts have argued that master’s students have become higher education’s most reliable cash cow — they pay ...

On Nov. 11, The Workers Union at UNC declared graduate worker stipends to be in a state of emergency. Adjusted for local living wage, UNC-Chapel Hill ranks last out of 13 observed universities with ...

The Cornell University Board of Trustees approved a 2 percent increase in stipends for graduate research and teaching assistants in the 2016-17 academic year at its Jan. 29 meeting, according to the ...

Editor's Note: This article has been updated significantly to further acknowledge the housing options available to graduate students and to include student testimonies. A previous version of this ...