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REBUILD CUNY, REBUILD nEW YORK 

If CUNY Wants to Compete for the Best,

It Must Provide Graduate Fellowships

 

The Chronicle of Higher Education conducted a survey of the 61 top research institutions in the Association of American Universities to determine what benefits they provide graduate students who teach or work as research assistants. More than 70 percent of the institutions responded.

The Chronicle found:

At many institutions, graduate students receive fellowships the first year, even without teaching responsibilities.

Tuition costs and often other fees are covered.

In the humanities and social sciences, graduate students can expect a stipend of $11,000 or $12,000 for the academic year.

In the sciences, research assistants are more likely to receive support for 12 months and at many places it will be close to or even above $20,000.

"Stipends Are Key in Competition to Land Top Graduate Students",
September 28, 2001,The Chronicle of Higher Education

 

CUNY is almost alone among research universities in not providing tuition remission for graduate students who serve as adjunct instructors and laboratory assistants.

 

CUNY’s inability to offer tuition remission severely hampers its ability to attract the best doctoral students. The loss to the University is great: not only do we lose the chance to educate these leading scholars, but also we lose the value they add to the environment for faculty.

At a minimum, CUNY should provide tuition remission for all of its Ph.D. students who are teaching or working in laboratories. The PSC proposes $4 million in public funding for this purpose.