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Date: Oct 13, 2004

Chronicle: USM Eng TA's have lowest stipends

Date: Oct 13, 2004

Ding, ding, ding, ding! You opened the 10,000th thread on the AAUP website. A perfectly lovely honor appropriate for resume padding. Congratulations!

Date: Oct 13, 2004

Oops,in my haste to congratulate you I made a careless mistake. What's an extra zero anyway? 1000th thread.

Date: Oct 13, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: truth4usm/AH
"In the latest print issue of the Chronicle (10/15/04), there is a graphic showing graduate student stipends for 3 different fields (English, Economics, and Biology) with results from a survey done by the Chronicle (they surveyed 83 institutions and reported the highest 3 and lowest 3 stipend amounts). USM English TA's ranked lowest in stipend amount at $8000/academic year (highest was Columbia at $17,044). Keep in mind that the 2004 federal poverty level is $9,310 for one person."

Thank goodness this sort of thing is finally being publicized. It exposes the lie that USM is devoted to being a world-class university with cutting-edge research. You will not attract the best and brightest in the nation with stipends like that.

Date: Oct 13, 2004

I'm surprised that the English stipends are even that high. I may be wrong, but I think those in music are even lower than that--and these are for doctoral level students.

Date: Oct 13, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Dr. MaderMath Revisited
"Oops,in my haste to congratulate you I made a careless mistake. What's an extra zero anyway? 1000th thread."

Yay for me! And the extra zero is just proof of my wurl'-class status, you know!

Date: Oct 13, 2004

When I received a TAship at Tulane (in the college of Engineering), the chair of a certain liberal arts department at USM told me that my TAship money was more than he paid starting assistant professors.

Whirled class, indeed.

Date: Oct 13, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Music Patron
"I'm surprised that the English stipends are even that high. I may be wrong, but I think those in music are even lower than that--and these are for doctoral level students."

I'm sorry...I should have said "lowest among English TA's." I don't have any idea about other areas.

Date: Oct 13, 2004

. . . and it's such an honor to be included with such prestigious institutions as Columbia!!

. After all, USliM is a Carnegie ranked unisubversity.

Date: Oct 13, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Swan Song
" . . . and it's such an honor to be included with such prestigious institutions as Columbia!!. After all, USliM is a Carnegie ranked unisubversity. "

LMAO!