By: Blair Emerson
Graduate student Josh Kielsmeier-Cook is working to support himself, his wife and their two-year-old daughter on his stipend as a University of Minnesota research assistant.
A chunk of that stipend goes back to the University in student fees every semester, and graduate students are pushing to reduce some of those costs.
Created last month, a Council of Graduate Students petition has gathered support from graduate students regarding fees they pay and obtained more than 180 signatures.