[La-cgs] GA Allocation Policy

[Ramu Ramachandran]

Sanjay:

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.

Best regards,
Ramu
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On 6/4/2021 5:08 PM, Menon, Sanjay wrote:
>
> 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
>
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>
> /Louisiana State University Shreveport/
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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
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