The pay is low, and change is slow!
I appreciate that IU has full funding options for their graduate degrees in the Media School, and I do not regret attending. But $15,000 per year is not a living wage, especially since the university requires students to pay up to 15 percent of it back in fees. Graduate students teach 30 percent of classes at IU. At the very least, graduate fees should be eliminated and we should be able to afford rent and health care. This is why academia struggles with racial and socioeconomic diversity: grad school is too expensive a ladder for most people to take a chance on climbing.
