The Bad and the Good

Re the Chancellor’s email:

After the usual fear-mongering, there’s something interesting at the end:

“Health coverage is an issue in which all of our students – 16,000 undergraduate and 4,000 graduates – have a stake. The Administration is committed to ensuring that our students have quality health coverage at competitive rates and is willing to explore with our student governance leaders and the GAU, benefit alternatives along with appropriate comparisons of premium, cost and benefits. Any conversation about enhanced healthcare benefits and related costs must be considered in the context of compliance with federal health care reform (ACA) and affordability for all of our students.”

That’s carefully non-committal language in the email, but could it perhaps be evidence of a slight movement in the administration’s position? We’ll see next Friday if Cheng & Co. really are committed to decent health-care for Graduate Assistants, or if it is just lip-service. Keep the pressure up, they have to respond.