A University of California (UC) faculty association estimates members will withhold more than 37,000 student grades for the fall semester in solidarity with an academic worker strike that carries into the end of finals week.
After months of negotiations, 48,000 researchers and student employees across all 10 UC campuses launched a strike Nov. 14, demanding pay raises due to cost-of-living increases.
The strike has left some classes without instructors and professors without teaching assistants to grade assignments and end-of-semester exams, which took place this week.
The Council of UC Faculty Associations, a larger agency for faculty associations across UC campuses, surveyed faculty to find out how many professors are not submitting fall semester grades….