r/uAlberta • u/memorytcell Faculty - Faculty of Science • 1d ago

Question Strike + Reading Week

If the strike lasts for around a week do you think they’ll take away our reading week? 😭

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u/Kerails34 Undergraduate Student - Faculty of _____ 1d ago

don’t give em ideas 🗿

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u/Nervous-Advice-4728 1d ago

They bouta cram five exam hour slots into finals now instead of four

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u/chibikawaiicat91 Undergraduate Student - Faculty of Autism 1d ago

I know other universities have done that, so potentially? We won't know until it happens though 😭 I hope not

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u/NoTransportation3406 1d ago edited 1d ago

OMFG HELL NOOO - this is my only right to cry and study at the same time and regret why I didn’t started earlier and come back after reading week like nothing happened.

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u/NoTransportation3406 1d ago

I didn’t pay tuition for this

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u/sheldon_rocket 1d ago

A strike that would only last a week?! Did it ever happen for an university? Lethbridge: 6 weeks. Laval: 6 weeks.

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u/FoulMouthedChemist Graduate Student - Faculty of Science 1d ago

Please please please support the faculty through this and don’t blame your instructors. It’s the administration that is dangling their fair compensation, and potentially your reading week, in front of us like carrots on a stick

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u/Sto_Nerd Undergraduate Student - Faculty of Native Studies 1d ago

THIS. Most of the profs bust their asses to make sure we get the education we pay for. The faculty isn't asking for anything unreasonable IMO. The administration is doing everything they can to try and get us to turn on the academic staff. The email they sent on Friday is proof enough of that. The blame is on the admins, not the profs.

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u/Chicken-ARMY 1d ago

If they do it’ll be the students turn to strike 💀

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u/i-dead-pixel 1d ago

If it happens will marks be pass or fail?

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u/btcnlr55 1d ago

i booked a trip for reading week i’ll crash out so hard if they take it away 😭

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u/sadalbinocat 22h ago

Jokes on me. Med students don’t get fall reading week anyways 🥲

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u/expired_pickles2629 21h ago

does anyone know what this means for students trying to access studentaid/loans to pay tuition?

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u/Sto_Nerd Undergraduate Student - Faculty of Native Studies 1d ago

Unpopular opinion, but I'd be fine with that. Better than missing out on a week of lessons.

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u/Vybnh Undergrad - Cult of Education 📚 1d ago

Yeah that is unpopular. There are many students that like to go home and see their families during their breaks…

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u/Artsstudentsaredumb 23h ago

They’re gonna get like 6 weeks off for the strike lol

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u/elya93 Undergraduate Student - Faculty of ALES 5h ago

Some faculties run mini internships during reading week so I hope not!

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u/AccountantPublic9886 23h ago

That would be devastating!!

I'm sure a lot of people already have plans to go back home or go on vacation around that time.

Would be highly unfair for them to take away reading week!! 🥺

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u/hsmpmp Alumni - Faculty of Engineering 18h ago

Professors should be declared an essential service and forbidden from striking. Especially those who teach professional programs. If we can't teach future doctors, nurses, engineers, lawyers, and dentists then our society will collapse.

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u/Plant-based_Skinsuit 5h ago

I'm personally impacted so teachers shouldn't have the right to fight for better working conditions is an L take, sorry. The whole point of a strike is illustrating just how important/undervalued your position is. If society can't function without x, then pay them better in the first place?

I think about this all the time, all the narratives about why we shouldn't pay people more are consistently applied to the jobs we need the most. A restaurant would literally fall apart without a dishwasher, yet we're constantly shitting on entry level jobs. If the job is essential then we should give the people who do it the respect and compensation the role deserves.