[La-cgs] GA Allocation Policy

[Mary J Farmer-Kaiser]

Hi Sanjay,

At UL, the Grad School allocates assistantship stipend and tuition/fee waiver budgets to departments to support graduate program enrollment and growth. Historically, these budgets had been intended to exclusively support the appointment of teaching assistants in general education courses, although that has changed over the years. We now do an annual budget request process through which the college deans are involved by reviewing departmental requests and they submit a college request that adjusts continuing funds up/down to reallocate assistantships in ways that support the college's needs. When reallocation needs arise that pull from one college to support a program in a different college, I work closely with both deans and the provost.

I also retain the right to pull back unencumbered funds at the beginning of each spring semester to support one-semester awards in other areas.

Mary


Mary Farmer-Kaiser, PhD

Professor of History

Dean of the Graduate School

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

337-482-6965

mary.farmer-kaiser at louisiana.edu

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Hi  Sanjay,

The Graduate School allocates funds to the various colleges. The Colleges have the latitude to allocate GAs in ways that best serve their needs. Our GA budget has remained static for a number of years so the question of additional funding for any area does not arise.

On occasion, I have used our Grad School GA budget to temporarily fund 2-3 GA lines in areas that are growing and need assistance.

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Sushma

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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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