![]() ![]() The group sees this as a major challenge to the ‘logic of competition’ pushed by a university that forces students to compete for grants and paid positions. For at least five of the students – some of whom are employed to work on campus in temporary positions – the account is where they deposit all their income. Started by three friends in 2012, the Collective has since grown to nine members. ![]() ‘We are challenging the experience of “mine” and “yours” by substituting it with “ours,”’ explain members of the group who – in keeping with their collective mission, opted to answer New Internationalist’s interview questions collectively on a Googledoc. While some of the graduate students in the Collective work for the faculty, they are not considered employees of private universities, like Duke, and the amount each student receives as a stipend can vary.īy pooling their combined incomes, the Collective hope to support students who the university pays less, or who are unable to work because of immigration restrictions. under a Creative Commons Licenceįor the past two years, graduate students at Duke University in North Carolina have pooled their incomes in a single bank account. ![]()
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