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Academic reimbursement culture is the actual bane of my existence. It is truly one of the worst things about academia, which is really saying something
In episode 3524 of things academia should reform: Reimbursement for conferences. Basically I paid for flights and conference fees in August for a conference in November and probably won't be reimbursed till January...Just Great. #AcademicTwitter#phdchat
Stop making graduate students pay up front for conferences
As I write this, I have two academic trips coming up in the next month. Together, they will cost just over US$1,300.
Got my AECT travel reimbursement today. Just over a month to get repaid for conference travel. Being an academic means that you always need money to play with and can hopefully go weeks without being repaid. #PhDLife#AcademicTwitter
Reimbursement Culture and Widening Participation in Academia
Last week, shortly after booking my first overseas PhD research trip, I found out that I’d had a paper proposal accepted by a major conference. Though both of these events were exciting, I swiftly realised that my combined travel and accommodation costs for these trips will be somewhere in the region of £1,500.
Scholars Challenge Costly Annual Meetings as Too Exclusive
Lacking travel funds, Julie E. Hartman-Linck, an associate professor of sociology at Frostburg State U., attended a regional meeting in Baltimore instead of the national meeting, in San Francisco.
Managing finances might be graduate students’ toughest test
For many grad students, financial anxiety originates from loans they’ve already taken out for their undergraduate years — and they’ve since added more debt on top of that. A recent report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center found that 54 percent of student loan-holders didn’t try to figure out what their monthly payments would be before taking out loans. If they could go back and do it over, 53 percent said they would do things differently.
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