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Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of GSAS said last night that outside financing for graduate students reached its peak in 1968 and has been declining ever since. Non-science fields feel the financial pinch most strongly. The English department, for example, relies almost entirely on the GSAS for its fellowship funds...
Some departments are having trouble finding enough graduate students to teach sections and tutorials. Keenan said the problem will become more acute in the next few years as enrollment continues to decline and teaching fellows are needed for the Core Curriculum...
...kinds of courses undergraduates flock to are in some cases precisely the fields in which graduate opportunities are not good," Keenan said, citing American History, Government and Folklore and Mythology as examples...
...Government Department, partially in response to the shortage of graduate students, this year set up junior seminars taught by Faculty members as an alternative to junior tutorial, generally a smaller course taught by graduate students, Keenan said...
...Keenan said the reinstitution of instructor posts would help fill teaching posts and would also help provide employment for Ph.D.'s. He added, however, that the costs and benefits of the move have not been worked out in detail...