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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...
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...
...resembles the pedagogical ideal, it is not the bottom of the heap, either. Rumor has it that we are paid somewhat better than our peers at many other universities, and a little extra cash can go a long way to quelling discontent. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) administration has made great improvements in the financial packages awarded to incoming students, which also takes some of the edge off. While there are certainly pockets of discontent and sub-par working conditions for Harvard graduate students, things are not quite bad enough to generate widespread protest...
Lisa L. Laskin, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History, is a former president of the GSAS Graduate Student Council...
McKinnell said that as of Friday the GSAS Student Affairs Office had not received any requests for discounted passes from undergraduates...