February 28, 2020
Graduate students who withheld Fall grades in departments that assign their TAships further in advance (i.e., grads who received appointments before the ultimatum to submit grades) received a “Notice of Intent to Dismiss for Spring Teaching Fellow Appointment.” This totaled 54 people.
Graduate students in departments that assign their TAships closer to the start date for that TAship are also out of work for striking. But instead of the “Intent to Dismiss” letters, they received emails like the following. This was about 28 people, for a total of about 82 graduate students fired in retaliation for striking.
