How do Canadian graduate students experience institutional funding? The Politics of Exclusion
in Graduate Education answers this question by offering an in-depth examination into the nature
of institutional funding arrangements from graduate students' standpoint. It explores the
students' perspectives on access to funding and the impact on their learning experience. The
focus on graduate students is timely in the ongoing discussion of neoliberal education policies
and the resulting commercialization of higher education in Canada. This study links current
discussions about the direction of higher education funding and the impact for accessible and
inclusive education. How do graduate students negotiate institutional arrangements to
accommodate the funding practices they encounter? What does their competition for the scarce
resources imply? The Politics of Exclusion in Graduate Education is both a reflection on the
current state of the graduate experience as well as a directive forward to a more inclusive
process of allocating resources across graduate faculties and institutions.
