Graduate Aid Redesign Project
Course 24 Meeting (02/02/2000)

The meeting goal was to discuss the business process by which Course 24 decides and processes student funding in the form of FE, RA and TA.

Establish the sources of funding from…research accounts and interest earned from endowment.

Figure out which students need funding and for how much.

Process the appointments

• Students are guaranteed funding for 4 years.
• Students either have a fellowship and TA (in this case students gets TA rate) or Fellowship and RA à no RA/TA at the same time
• TA allocations are based on enrollment. On subjects that require recitation, Course 24 knows beforehand how many TA’s they are going to appoint, they process the award and when they receive the enrollment data, they assign the TA’s to the subjects that need them. For example: subject 24.010 has a total of 100 students enrolled. As a general rule, course 24 appoints a 100% TA per 25 students. This subject would then be assigned 4 TA’s. This formula is just used as a baseline…it is not a hard core requirement.
• It would be useful to have a field that shows the graduate student’s year of study.

• Unlike Sloan, Linguistics and Philosophy use the enrollment data after the awards have been processed to distribute the students hired among the different subjects.
• They welcomed the idea of having pre-set "student packages"
• Their operation is fairly simple and straightforward.
• It would be useful to have the ability to create a report that provides: Subject #, Subject name, professor, TA assigned to the subject and enrollment.
• Would like the MITSIS report that is done by account to display information on a yearly basis in addition to on a per term basis.