Word: grads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Financial aid for grad students--the report said that all students who get first-year financial aid should be guaranteed a second-year renewal of aid, and that the grad school should work towards five-year guarantees for all grad students who qualify for assistance...
...Grad student morale--the report devoted a section of the low morale of graduate students and suggested the creation of a Graduate Student Center and closer student-Faculty contact to boost morale...
Wolff was followed by Robert G. McCloskey, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government. McCloskey seconded Woff's motion for approval of the plan and said that the provisions for guaranteed financial aid would help raise grad student morale, as well as improve the University's position in competitive recruiting of students...
McCloskey added that the guaranteed aid would not add much to the grad school's net cost, since most qualified students currently get aid during all their years at GSAS. "This would just regularize what is the state of affairs anyway," he said. "Why not turn it into a guarantee and save the worry...
Elder added that he supported the two-year aid guarantee, but that he was "leery of the 5-year guarantee--leery of the idea of having tenured graduate students." As a possible alternative to that plan Elder suggested a more thorough investigation of income sources for grad students. Elder said that he would name a special five-member committee--to be chaired by Thomas K. Sisson, assistant and made up of two Faculty members-to study sources of income...