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...applied to all first-through fifth-year students as a yardstick for determining aid. Under the plan, however, departments can choose to fund students $1000 below their calculated need, and use the difference to swell their number of "merit scholarships," which are awarded at the discretion of department chairmen...
Previous plans left most funding to the chairmen's discretion, and merit was the sole criterion for financial aid. Other plans had used need criteria to determine aid for teaching fellows only, but had awarded them enough to cover tuition plus living expenses. The Kraus plan evaluated teaching students in the same category as non-teachers--salaries counted as "resources" and were figured into the need estimate...
...result, department chairmen reacted to the plan with predictable anxiety. Because the Kraus plan's need criteria cut into their freedom to recruit and encourage the most "meritorious" applicants and students, the chairmen warned that such students might be lured away to Yale or Berkeley, where merit scholarships still rule graduate student financing. In short, they warned that the quality of graduate education was at stake. Nonetheless, department chairmen agreed unanimously to adopt the Kraus plan on a trial basis only for next year...
SECURITIES and Exchange Commission chairmen have ranged from the most vivid personalities (Joseph...
Several department chairmen claimed, however, that the merit-based funds were too limited...