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Economic crisis may impact graduate student funding
Published: Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
The University may not be able to increase its employee salary pool and funding for graduate students to keep up with rising costs, and it may have to delay construction projects in the wake of the weakened economy, University officials ...(back to the article)
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"shuttle service will also be extended to the Hibben-Magie Apartments"?
It's been going there for at least five years. Great research.
Eisgruber sounds like a complete dick. I don't need some rich provost lecturing me about what hard times are like and what we need to give up. I'd like to see him try to live on a grad student salary. Let's see if he gives up his raise this year.
is FOX news behind this? only they would attempt such spin, like the idea that the new shuttle helps grad students by going to Hibben-Magie and returning them home as late as midnight. I appreciate that you want to make this sound new and better, but this is not an improvement -- it's been like this for the last few years.
The current Green Line ALREADY goes to Hibben-Magie, Lawrence, the GC, and Butler. The new system will place each of these housing complexes on a different shuttle route, except during so-called "express hours" and after 9 PM, when the first three are connected once again. It's nice to see the Prince reporting on graduate students, but I wish they'd actually talked to a graduate student -- or look at the current Green Line map -- before making sweeping -- and false -- assertions.
Dear "please":
Graduate school stipends are a privilege, not a right. At Princeton we do as well or better than anywhere else in the country. I support a wife and three kids on my stipend alone and we do just fine, so I can only imagine how well single graduate students do financially. But of course this is all relative to one's expectations. So please show some respect and gratitude for what we have at Princeton.
true, grad student stipends are not a "right." but neither are professors' salaries, by that measure. still, grad students depend on these salaries to live. i'm glad you can support yourself and your family on our stipend. but some of us can't. particularly when our research entails traveling, either domestically or abroad, for our research. it's not easy to live on 25k a year when you spend 5 or 6k on research expenses alone, and then another few thousand on taxes.
grad students depend on stipends for both their research and their livelihood. no one is asking for a 50% raise or a professors' salary. all i am saying is that it is ridiculously that, when the university has a little financial pressure, we're the first ones to be cut. i don't have a trust fund or rich parents to bail me out. maybe you do.
The University has massively greater bargaining power in this case, and is shamelessly making full use of it.
Let's get something straight: graduate scholars' stipends are their salaries, and are just as much a "right" as that of any employee. Of course, the University realizes that there exists a large demand for a small number of spots, giving them tremendous leverage. The solution for us is the same for those outside academia: unionize. Its been done at other schools (Yale, NYU, Cal) and it can be done here.
@Not Quite: Is this new schedule available online? I've yet to see it.
"it's not easy to live on 25k a year when you spend 5 or 6k on research expenses alone, and then another few thousand on taxes."
-your advisor doesn't pay for the research expenses...?
"I support a wife and three kids on my stipend alone and we do just fine, so I can only imagine how well single graduate students do financially."
-do you live on spam and mac n cheese?