| # | Name | What is your campus Dept. or Affiliation? | Comments |
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| 251 | D. Joseph Jerry | Veterinary & Animal Sciences | The high costs for graduate students has several adverse effects.
1) I have already begun to decrease the number of graduate students as they have become too costly.
2) With fewer graduate students, I am unable to accommodate undergraduate research in my lab. Thus, the opportunities for undergraduates is directly compromised.
3) With fewer students training at UMass, it means that fewer individuals to spread the reputation of UMass as an excellent university for training. This will diminish applicants to our graduate programs in the future. Thus, even if the fees are reduced immediately, some damage has already occurred.
4) As graduate students along with post-docs contribute to the process of inquiry, I feel that elimination of graduate training from lab is unacceptable for the long-term survival. Thus, I and other faculty may find it necessary to relocate to a more hospitable environment should the present policies continue.
Sincerely,
Joseph Jerry |
| 252 | Sara Jaffe | English-MFA | |
| 253 | Agnès Lacreuse | Psychology | |
| 254 | Angela Duke | NSB | |
| 255 | Sharlene E. Santana | OEB | |
| 256 | Zhiyi Sun | OEB | |
| 257 | Sean Werle | Biology | |
| 258 | Stephen M. Rich | Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences | |
| 259 | Philip Bergmann | Organismic and Evolutionary Biology | |
| 260 | Elsbeth Walker | Amherst | Let me continue to train graduate students instead of switching my program entirely to postdoctoral training! Keep the cost of training graduate students reasonable. |
| 261 | Peter Alpert | | |
| 262 | Lynn Adler | PSIS | The curriculum fee, combined with the low amount of TA and fellowship support on campus, has made it very difficult for me to support graduate students as part of my research program and to recruit the top students. |
| 263 | Jeffrey Blaustein | Neuroscience and Behavior Program/Psych Dept. | There are two issues. The first is the direct charges to the students, which I know of no other universities charging. Students that we interview quickly hear that they do not receive their full promised stipend. The second is that the charges to grants have become a disincentive to including graduate students on grants. Grad students are the life-blood of the research enterprise and should be seen as part of the University's mission. As a resesarch university, we should be encouraging graduate programs, not discouraging them. |
| 264 | Sarah Huber | Biology | |
| 265 | Penny Jaques | OEB Program Manager | In the past 10 years, the curriculum fee has more than tripled. Continued hikes will be the death of graduate education on the UMass campus. |
| 266 | Kara Belinsky | OEB, U-Mass Amherst | |
| 267 | Melissa Fugiero | Graduate Student, Sociology | |
| 268 | Iris L. Price | Neuroscience & Behavior Program | |
| 269 | Ann Paradis | OEB & entomology | |
| 270 | Justin Henningsen | OEB | The fee increases are placing an undue burden on students that should be focusing on becoming the next generation of scholars. |
| 271 | Sandra Gillespie | Organismic and Evolutionary Biology | |
| 272 | Susannah Lerman | Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology | |
| 273 | Fabian Romano Chernac | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | |
| 274 | Ethan Plunkett | Fisheries and Wildlife | |
| 275 | Pablo Pomposiello | Microbiology | The high cost of hiring graduate students on research grants is a deterrant, and contradicts our mandate of training young researchers. |
| 276 | Stephanie Moeckel-Cole | Biology/MCB | |
| 277 | Natalia Taft | OEB | This has been a real hardship for myself and my husband, who is also a grad student in our department. Please roll back fees! If UMass can afford over $4 million dollars in administrative raises, I'm sure it can find some way to help the 2400 or so GEO eligible grads afford our education. |
| 278 | Erika Parker | Organismic and Evolutionary Biology | |
| 279 | Jeff Podos | Biology | |
| 280 | Tobias Baskin | Biology Dept | The Curriculum fee is simply a way for the university to collect more indirect dollars than they negotate. The money goes into general operating budget, not used for "curriculum". |
| 281 | Barry Braun | Kinesiology | The cost of the curriculum fee is adds ($6.50 * 20 hrs * 38 weeks = $4940) almost $5000/year to the cost of each graduate student. I have 7 students; so the fee can cost my grants almost $35,000 /year. I just don't have the ability to raise sufficient extramural funding to handle ongoing costs of this magnitude. As a result I am planning to cut back the number of grad students I train. |
| 282 | teresa conneely | microbiology | |
| 283 | Ana Caicedo | Biology | |
| 284 | Jason Coombs | OEB | |
| 285 | Kathryn Lord | Organismic and Evolutionary Biology | |
| 286 | Marianne Seney | | |
| 287 | Marianne Seney | Neuroscience and Behavior | |
| 288 | Dennis Searcy | Biology Dept. | |
| 289 | John Donahoe | Psychology/Behavioral Neuroscience | |
| 290 | Lynnette Leidy Sievert | Anthropology | |
| 291 | Ceren Ozselcuk | | |
| 292 | Anonymous | NRC | The very high fees mean that graduate students are no longer the first choice for assistance with research. Post-docs and technicians are a better way to go now. |
| 293 | Mari Castaneda | UMass Amherst Communication | |
| 294 | Lynmarie Thompson | Chemistry | |
| 295 | Paul Goodchild | SOM - Accounting | |
| 296 | Henry Geddes | Communication | |
| 297 | David Lenson | LLC | |
| 298 | Deborah Carlin | English | |
| 299 | Gerald Friedman | Professor of Economics | Eliminate this counter-productive fee! The lost revenues can be recouped by cutting administrative waste and salaries back down to the 2002 level. |
| 300 | Margaret Speas | Department of Linguistics | |