Petition to Reduce UMass Fees Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	Name	What is your campus Dept. or Affiliation?	Comments
51	Anonymous	Geosciences
52	Sherrie Bain	Microbiology-GEO Campaigns Coordinator
53	Michael Vollinger	grad student
54	Ambarish Karmalkar	Geosciences
55	George Christopher Koteas
56	Laura Heston	Sociology
57	Shawn Trivette	Sociology
58	Ted Thornhill	Sociology
59	Amy Dickinson	English
60	Caryl Becerra	Microbiology
61	Robert Herr	Spanish and Portuguese
62	Beth Caissie	Geosciences
63	Ryan Shackleton	Geosciences	UMass's policy of boasting low tuition while passing off costs in absurdly high student fees has got to stop. Faculty are already moving towards hiring more post-docs because they don't have to pay absurdly high fees for grad students, and that's just not right.
64	Suraj	ECE UMASS Amherst
65	Anonymous	Electrical and Computer Engineering
66	Suraj	ECE UMASS Amherst
67	Caitlin Stewart	Geoscience
68	Alex K Manda	Geosciences	Roll back fees so that we can afford a decent education and graduate on time.
69	Caro Pinto	History/Undergraduate Advising	ROLL BACK FEES! I cannot live on my assistanship alone anymore. Thus, I work four jobs to make ends meet as I try to finish my degree. The fees, coupled with our paltry earnings to teach UMass undergraduates, make graduate school unattainable to students who lack the means to live beyond a 10k we earn after fees and taxes. Roll back fees so that UMass can attract and retain the best and the brighest.
70	Jyoti Mahalik	Polymer Science and Engineering	The living expenses are so high and the fees we pay are so high but the compewnsation is too low in comparision to other universities. Shouldn't it be changed for the betterment of all?
71	Anonymous	Computer Science
72	MANOJKUMAR CHELLAMUTHU	MIE
73	Gaurav Mathur	Computer Science
74	Eesha Williams	History
75	Nilanjan	Computer Science	I peronally believe that this fee is something that should be either scrapped or paid by the body paying us. Given the high cost of living, this fee potentially becomes a bottleneck.
76	Tom Juravich	Labor Center
77	amrita	Sociology
78	amrita	Sociology
79	Pritish Narayanan	ECE
80	Prasad	Public Health
81	mary c. wilson	history	this is part of the picture, but what really helps recruitment is a high level of financial support, via assistantships and scholarships.
82	Eileen McGowan	GEOScience
83	Rachel Ostrowski	Political Science
84	Paul King	Labor Studies	There are many students in my department who are struggling without a graduate appointment and the funding it brings from the school. They must work long hours at local jobs to get by and this invariably takes away from their studies as well as work that would further benefit our mission at the Labor Center.
85	Alodeep Sanyal	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
86	Brad Mapes-Martins	Political Science
87	Sarah Schillawski		I support a reduction in curriculum and mandatory student fees. Research is suffering because of these fees. I also support an end to administrative raises (above the change in the cost of living) until administrators clearly demonstrate their ability to effectively carry out agreed upon plans that support faculty and students. A tangible demonstration of their ability would be fulfilling the 250 plan, adopted in May 2005, which includes hiring 80-85 new faculty per year for three years.
88	Marianne Joyce	Sociology
89	Chris Fobare	History	Graduate students have to survive on the stipends we are given. Asking us to pay over $1,000 is fees per year is asking too much--especially when those fees have little or nothing to do with graduate students. Stop exploiting this university's labor force!
90	Max Page	Architecture and History
91	James MacAllister	Geosciences
92	Harream Purdie	Labor Center
93	Nicholas Balascio	Geosciences
94	Cassiopoeia Galfas	Sociology	Were these fees use to sponsor Graduate activities on campus, they would be understandable. Graduate students, however, are charged for many activities, such as attendance at athletic events, use of facilities, and access to foreign language programs, that undergraduates are not - while those benefits that are provided for graduate students are accessible to undergraduates. All students, no matter their status, should have access to all activities, facilities and programs funded by the school.
95	Amanda Geno	History
96	Stacie Sosinski	History
97	Anonymous	microbiology
98	Krishna Melnattur	Molecular & Cellular Biology
99	Susan Leschine	Microbiology
100	John Patrick Diggins, IV	Geosciences	I think that the University should stop charging the students and their faculty sponsors extraneous fees that fill the tuition void caused by inappropriate spending.