A short letter that I wrote on the “pause” in graduate student admissions at Boston University was just published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. My argument is somewhat speculative, but the idea is that financial considerations drive most such decisions, rather than a primary focus on union-busting. I could be wrong, since I have no inside information about the motivations of the BU administrators, and the potential damage to the grad student union may well have entered into the calculations. Read the letter here.