[La-cgs] GA Allocation Policy

[Menon, Sanjay]

Hi all,

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 to the issue.

Thanks!

Sanjay

Sanjay T. Menon, Ph. D.
Dean of Graduate Studies
Director of India Studies
Louisiana State University Shreveport
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