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The changes, which the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) plans to implement for the 2008-09 academic year, will improve stipends for graduate students in the social sciences and humanities while making it possible for graduate programs in science and engineering divisions to admit larger Ph.D. classes.
The increased funding, announced Friday in an e-mail to the Faculty, will go toward subsidizing four summers of study for current and incoming graduate students in the humanities and social sciences. Stipends—given to graduate students to cover the costs of living and study—will...
According to Skocpol, the boost of funds to the sciences was necessary to allow FAS and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to increase the size of the incoming Ph.D. classes.
“We can’t build the sciences, we can’t build a whole new campus in Allston, we can’t create new areas of research, without graduate students,” Skocpol said.
“People come into these sciences and they think they know what they want their field to be,” he said. “They think they have their departments picked out. And then you get into these labs, you start doing the work and realize...