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The money doesn't exist to do that. Graduate student stipends are paid out of government grants, and the amount of money issued by the government as grants is g
by munin 9y ago
The money doesn't exist to do that. Graduate student stipends are paid out of government grants, and the amount of money issued by the government as grants is going down.
- leereeves 9y agoThey could make it grant-neutral by lowering the tuition rates at the same time. The universities would receive less money but it need not be "the destruction of graduate education".
- munin 9y agoThe university is using that money for something already, and now it isn't. I guess this depends on what that something is. If they're just stuffing it under their mattresses or using it to pay some associate under provost for squirrel education a $150k salary, or putting marble plating in the athlete dorms, then this probably isn't a big loss. If it's going to something like students with disabilities or need based scholarships...
- leereeves 9y agoIt's only a bit of an exaggeration to say that a lot of money is used to "pay some associate under provost for squirrel education a $150k salary, or put marble plating in the athlete dorms". Surely the universities could find some expenses to cut that wouldn't hurt too much.
- munin 9y agoMaybe! You'd have to look at the numbers. I remember the last time someone showed me numbers, actually most of the money went into core operations cost to offset money that the state used to contribute. Though I think in this particular case, for my particular institution, the University could totally mitigate all financial cost to graduate students by cutting the subsidy the University gives to the athletics programs (about 15% of the athletics budget is paid for by the students in the form of fees the students are assessed on top of their tuition).