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School refuses to pay graduate students appropriate stipen - Graduate Student Florida State University Employee Review

1.0
Sep 22, 2022
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Pros

Students and professors are very skilled and knowledgeable. Facilities are excellent.

Cons

The school continues to refuse to raise the grad student stipend (we get $24k, while many schools give $30-25k). I actually did the math, and I would make more money working only 40 hrs/week at most McDonalds. Additionally, school is refusing to give adequate raise in light of inflation (FSU is fighting the grad student union over a 1% raise when inflation is 6% - a raise of anything less than 6% is a paycut.) Tallahassee is not cheap to live in - rent has gone up significantly this year (Can't find a 1 bedroom apartment for less than $1000/month, and housing with roommates near the university is also expensive (avg $600-800/month)).

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5.0
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Flexible to your needs as a student Protects you as a teacher Good space to grow as a teacher

Cons

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1.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

I had a job and could read my books/draw during down time.

Cons

Horrible management. Incredibly aloof staff that does not take POC employees seriously. Also, multitude of microaggressions and straight up racism, Plain attempts of treating their staff without compassion and also putting their staff and students in harm's way during FSU's 2025 school shooting. Staff was told to keep working during an active shooting and even after people had been pronounced dead. This is not simply a testing center issue but a systematic concern of FSU's departments. Pay is also mediocre and only went up recently because of consistent complaints from the employees--not because they wanted to. Plenty of inappropriate behaviors were present while I was working there from upper management. Fawning, favoritism, power trips, blurring boundaries, etc. Parking is awful.

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