| # | Name | What is your campus Dept. or Affiliation? | Comments |
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| 201 | Doreen Fifield | Molecular and Cellular Biology Program | |
| 202 | Jason Hill | MCB Graduate student | |
| 203 | Anonymous | Molecular and Cellular Biology Program | |
| 204 | Barbara Osborne | Vet & Animal Sciences | The fee increases undermine our ability to train graduate students. It is cheaper and more effective to hire technicians and postdocs in our labs and if we all continue to have to pay these fees, many fewer graduate students will be trained in the sciences at UMass. |
| 205 | Jonathan G.Rud | MCB | |
| 206 | Paraskevi Sgourdou | Biology | |
| 207 | Joseph G. Kunkel | Biology | Small grants that support a graduate student are being particularly hard hit since their budget is made up mostly of the salary for a grad student. |
| 208 | Pablo Visconti | Veterinary and Animal Sciences | The curriculum fee represents a burden for researchers at the University. In addition, the University loose their indirect costs from Institutions like NIH. To continue being competitive in grant applications as well as in publications, curriculum fees for Ph.D. students in the STEM disciplines should be eliminated. |
| 209 | Stacy Carvalho | Molecular and Cellular Biology | The financial pressures on students are too high and coupled with our academic and work responsibilities make being a graduate student very difficult. Reducing mandatory fees (which is a huge portion of what I am taking out loans to cover each semester) would greatly help me reduce the amounts of my loans each semester. I hope that this petition will be seriously considered as it has a great impact on the lives of students. |
| 210 | Catherine McCusker | Molecular and Cellular Biology | |
| 211 | Vincent Rotello | Chemistry | The fees are counterproductive to our goal of achieving quality in research. |
| 212 | Sait Ozturk | | |
| 213 | Jeanne Hardy | Assist. Prof. Chemistry | The tremendous increases in curriculum fees make it extremely difficult to pay for students to work in the lab. The massive hikes in the fees every year diminish the amount and quality of science we can do. I ask that you roll back the fees. |
| 214 | Dominique Alfandari | Vet and Animal Sciences | |
| 215 | Scott Garman | Biochemistry | The fees make it difficult to train students because of the costs they impose on investigators. |
| 216 | Helene Cousin | Vet & Animal Sciences Dpt | |
| 217 | Michele Klingbeil | Microbiology | The curriculum fee (and its 5% annual increases) is essentially diminishing our ability to train highly qualified graduate students at this institution. This fee is also reducing the value of our hard-won external funding. |
| 218 | Samuel J. Black | Veterinary and Animal Sciences | I consider the curriculum fee a significant threat to continued graduate education on the UMass-Amherst campus |
| 219 | Samuel J. Black | Veterinary and Animal Sciences | I consider the curriculum fee a significant threat to continued graduate education on the UMass-Amherst campus |
| 220 | Anonymous | biochemistry | |
| 221 | Ayse Ozacar | Molecular and Cellular Biology | |
| 222 | Jerrold Meyer | Psychology; Neuroscience & Behavior | Rising grad student fees, particularly the curriculum fee, are a significant factor reducing the competitiveness of UMass in attracting the best grad students and a major disincentive for faculty members to engage in grad student training. |
| 223 | Magdalena Bezanilla | Biology | |
| 224 | Caren Rotello | Psychology | The dramatic rise in curriculum fees has eroded the value of my hard-earned grant dollars. I have thought seriously about shifting away from paying graduate students in favor of hiring postdocs. |
| 225 | Haoheng Yan | Molecular and Cellular Biology | |
| 226 | William Boston-Howes | Molecular and Cellular Biology Ph.D candidate | |
| 227 | Juan Anguita | Veterinary and Animal Sciences | These fees are an obscure way for the university to obtain funds, clearly penalizing Faculty that obtain outside funding. It is unclear how these fees are associated with the training of graduate students, but rather hindering the ability and willingness of mentoring faculty to commit to this training. |
| 228 | Anonymous | TGSA | |
| 229 | Zeynep Inanc | Political Science | |
| 230 | aycan kapucu | psychology | |
| 231 | Gerald B. Downes | Biology | |
| 232 | Anonymous | Kinesiology | |
| 233 | Ustun Tulu | MCB | Fees have been doubled since I joined MCB seven years ago... |
| 234 | Nick Ferenz | MCB | |
| 235 | Kausalya Murthy | MCB | |
| 236 | julie laroche | NSB | |
| 237 | Andre J Boulay | Psychology | The rising grad student fees, including the curriculum fee, are a detriment to graduate education on our campus. |
| 238 | Veronica Lopez | neuroscience and behavior | |
| 239 | Julian Sosnik | MCB | |
| 240 | Anonymous | | |
| 241 | UnJa Hayes | Psychology | Why should I invest in graduate training when I can hire a "professional?!" For the cost of a graduate student, I could hire a postdoc. If you care about graduate training, reduce the fees!!!!! |
| 242 | Carrie E. Mahoney | UMass-Amherst | |
| 243 | Anonymous | Biology | |
| 244 | Anonymous | Neuroscience and Behavior | |
| 245 | Lisa S. Scott | Psychology | currently it seems more economical ro get a post-doc than a pay a graduate student. The costs make it difficult for young faculty to get and keep graduate students. |
| 246 | Elizabeth Jakob | Psychology | The graduate student fees have significantly impacted my ability to support students. I have gone from 5 graduate students to one, and do not foresee that I would able to take more on in the near future. Under the current fee structure, it makes far more economic sense to employ technicians rather than graduate students--that strategy will surely have lasting negative impacts on the profile of our graduate programs. In addition, productivity is bound to suffer, which will in turn result in fewer grants. The current fee structure strikes me as a short-term response to economic problems, but will have long-term negative consequences that are hard to reverse.
I have been discussing our fees with colleagues from other research universities, and they do seem extraordinarily high in comparison. |
| 247 | Anonymous | | |
| 248 | Theresa Ray | neuroscience and behavior program, psychology dept | |
| 249 | Eliza Nelson | Psychology | |
| 250 | Anonymous | Psychology | The high curriculum fees are particularly difficult on pretenure faculty who lack the seniority to recruit postdoctoral fellows and generally have smaller grant budgets. |