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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) implemented the improvements during the 1998-1999 academic year with the goal of making GSAS more competitive with other leading programs by offering students more money over a longer period of time...
Increases in graduate student financial aid implemented in 1998 have greatly improved the competitiveness of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), according to a report released at last week’s Faculty Council meeting...
...improvements in the financial aid packages offered by GSAS, which mainly target Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences, have led to increases in both the number of applicants as well as the percentage of accepted applicants who choose to attend, according the report, which was written by GSAS Dean Peter T. Ellison...
There are key steps that the GSAS administration could take in response to student dissatisfaction that would improve graduate student working conditions at Harvard. Most importantly, the GSAS administration must not run scared of the supposedly all-powerful academic departments, and must take a leadership role in improving graduate student work conditions by developing a set of recommendations for departments in the areas of teaching fellow hiring and training. Departments should streamline the hiring process by centralizing the administrative aspects within each department, and clarifying hiring practices. Finally, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning does a good...
Lisa L. Laskin, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History, is a former president of the GSAS Graduate Student Council...