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In addition to being employees, we are also students. As students, there are other issues that we would like to see resolved outside of the context of a contract: • Cap the size of graduate seminar courses • Ensure all masters’ students have faculty advisors and access to quality coursework (Ph.D. courses). • Hire more faculty and have grad student representation on hiring committees • Require course evaluations for graduate courses and create a mechanism for graduate input • Provide incentive to faculty for their teaching by creating teaching awards and including student/trainee input in the tenure/promotions process • Ensure all students have a secondary advisor or committee that monitors the student’s progress throughout their research • Register students beyond their seventh year to support the completion of their dissertations.