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Sanjay:<br>
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I will reply to the list so I may have the benefit of the input from
others. As Dean of Graduate School, I don't control the GA budgets
at all, except for 2 that working for me in this office. Our GA
budgets are allocated to the colleges. In Engineering & Science
(which used to be my home college), there are no departments. So, GA
offers are made based on qualifications but assignments are made
based on needs. [Sounds like Marxism, doesn't it?] It is not at all
uncommon to have EE and ME students teaching Physics labs, ChemE
students in Chemistry labs and so on. In the other colleges, it is
more department-based but I did get a call yesterday from the
Associate Dean of Liberal Arts asking if he could allocate a portion
of his History GA budget to another department that had larger
enrollments and greater needs (temporarily, of course). The answer,
in our system, is that it is totally up to the Dean of the college.
I have no say in it.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Ramu<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was hoping to pick your collective brain
on a conundrum I am dealing with. At LSUS, budget-wise, our
current GA policy is allocate the same baseline number of GAs
to each program regardless of enrollment, with additional GAs
being funded by individual faculty grants or departmental
budgets. I am wondering if there are other models that I can
propose to senior administration. My objective is to find a
way to provide additional GAs to specific programs as a means
to attract students to low enrollment programs. Directly
tying number of GAs to enrollment would make the problem
worse, as programs with more enrollment will end up with more
GAs and low enrollment programs with fewer. Simply increasing
the number of GAs to low enrollment programs will lead to
charges of inequity from other programs. I will be working
with individual program directors to attract funding, but that
is really not a policy solution . I appreciate any
suggestions you may have regarding a suitable policy approach
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sanjay<o:p></o:p></p>
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B. Ramu Ramachandran
Associate Vice President for Research & Dean of Graduate School
Director, Institute for Micromanufacturing
T. L. James Eminent Scholar Chair Professor
P. O. Box 7923
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA 71270, USA
318-257-4304 (Graduate School)
318-257-5106 (IfM)</pre>
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