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Signatures | Total: 482

 

# NameWhat is your campus Dept. or Affiliation?Comments
351 Steph AinesHistory/Undergrad
352 Cora OlsonCEEHell No!
353 Molly MulliganMIE
354 Andrew FreemanHistory/undergrad
355 Liana ThompsonTheater
356 Jacob DescheneauyPoliScie/CommEducation is the right of all free people!
357 Megan McDonoghRegional Planning
358 William J BartoschAssistant Prof. Public Health
359 Laura AndersonUniversity Without Walls
360 Mariela MartinezSpanish TO
361 Lauren OaklandMIE Undergrad
362 Gabrielle GranoffPsychology
363 Ronit KriegerPsychology
364 Erica KreindelPsychology
365 Sara BernardoSTPEC
366 Kelly MemanusPscyhology
367 Eric FrenchNeuroscience
368 Karen WindusMFA/English
369 Matt ConstettiPsychology
370 Sherri VargaHTM
371 Bliss Requa-Trautz
372 Joanna ChanSOM/Accounting
373 Hasan ComertEconomics
374 Oluwayemisi AfereAccounting & Information/Psychology
375 Oluwayemisi AfereAccounting & Information/Psychology
376 Isabel EspinalLibrary / English
377 Jennifer HeuerHistory
378 Michael AshEconomics/CPPAThe Curriculum Fee would be more acceptable if it directly and tangibly improved graduate pedagogy. As matters stand, it's a high tax on employing graduate student researchers, which works to the detriment of graduate students as well as faculty grant-seeking.
379 Alice NashHistory
380 AnonymousEconomics
381 Jean S. ForwardAnthropologyThe curriculum fees are ridiculously high.
382 Deborah CarlinEnglish
383 Naka IshiiScience & Engineering LibraryThis administrative tax causes a disincentive to faculty to support graduate students, and promotes hiring post-docs or technicians (who do not take classes, so pay no curriculum fee) instead; but the post-docs have to come from somewhere, and our faculty should not be penalized for mentoring graduate students.
384 Lynne BakerPhilosophy
385 AnonymousPSE
386 Elizabeth HarveyPsychology
387 Jennifer NormanlyBiochemistry & Molecular BiologyThe curriculum fee, with its 5% annual increase is steadily pricing graduate students out of our research grants. Graduate students are the lifeblood of a research institution and so the University should look for ways to enhance our ability to support graduate students.
388 AnonymousMIE
389 Dimitrios MaroudasChemical Engineering
390 Rachel KeenpsychologyThe imposed curriculum fee and other mandatory student fees at UMass Amherst will encourage faculty to hire non-student assistants on their grants. Non-student help is always cheaper, but faculty want to support graduate students if at all possible. The imposed fees are making it increasingly difficult to manage in grant budgets.
391 Miliann KangWomen's Studies
392 Lee BadgettEconomics
393 Herman FongBusiness Communication, School of Management
394 Leonard AdamsLibrary
395 AnonymousEPRAThe high curriculum fees mean that we are not competitive in attracting international graduate students to UMass. This contradicts the global mission of any aspiring Research I university.
396 Kourosh DanaiMechanical and Industrial Eng.The charging of curriculum fee to grants has caused a major drop in the number of graduate research assistants and has eroded our competitiveness in acquiring grants.
397 Max PageMSP, Architecture program
398 Anonymous
399 James CrottyEconomics
400 ray bradleygeosciences

 

Signatures | Total: 482