(MADISON) The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been making the case for how the state can help the institution attract and keep top-notch faculty. Now, some are hoping to broaden the focus on recruitment and retention to the people who help the professors.
Graduate students do everything from teach in the classroom to help out in the lab as research and project assistants. Judith Kornblatt says theyâ??re part of the backbone at UW-Madison, which has more grad students than any other UW campus, and where she works as an associate dean of the graduate school. She says if one were to stop a faculty member on campus and ask whatâ??s really important to them, many would say graduate students. Also, she says if the same question were asked of an undergraduate, theyâ??d likely point to their teaching assistants in various courses.