Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calls for an aggregate contribution of $4 million from students. A contribution of $1 million from the Corporation--a relatively small sum in relation to total expenditures--would redress most of the inequities that the Union has pointed out. Some of this sum could come from the inordinately large "merit pools" provided for departments by the plan. If it cannot come from the endowment, as several Administrators have said, we ask the Administration to document its claims...
...GSAS in the past distributed aid in two ways: graduate students were given Staff Tuition Scholarships (changed this year to the Tuition Abatement Program) in return for serving as teaching fellows. Graduate students could also be awarded funds by their departments based on merit. Both sources of aid were liberally supplemented by outside funding, from both the government and foundations...
...agreed led to distortions in the education process. In addition, funds from this source could not cover the burgeoning aid requirements in the GSAS, and the cry went up from many quarters for a centrally administered program that made larger awards on the basis of need alone, instead of merit...
...Union says the Kraus plan does not go far enough. It charges the plan's provisions for calculating need are too conservative, and opposes its retention of merit-based grants...
...Union's opposition to the merit-based $1000 differential is based on a slightly different analysis. It does not oppose this type of grant in principle, but argues that in a time when everyone is tightening his financial belt, need comes before merit and all students should be funded up to full need...