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ss ■ local Battalion/Page 3 ! September 23, 1982 S inter! •ghtor toftheX, iv e Pol 2r note. Fellowships are ^benefit to grads by Angel Stokes Battalion Reporter High industry salaries have an ?| caused graduate programs at l 'many universities, including 'j®)l i Texas A&M University, to offer fellowships and assistantships to attract qualified students. Sherri Stolleis, graduating in December with a bachelor’s de gree in industrial engineering, is «eithf, iditions; * the Gt lost lii s nod oiii o paycl > tr y m g ill feed** off. 'f the si n foolei -ntlyas neart oti to decide between indus try and graduate school. Others in her field have been offered starting salaries between $24,000 and $30,000 a year but fellowships and assistantships offered by Texas A&M might influence her decision. “If 1 apply and get accepted 3 control j t0 graduate school before Nov. 1, I can probably get an assis- D0 ]j t j/, tantship,” Stolleis said, r She said she is being encour aged to continue her education now because she doesn’t have the obligations of a family and job. “Having a master’s degree I would increase my starting sal ary by two or three thousand dollars,” she said. But Stolleis would have to get an assistantship to continue school right now. The Graduate College awards fellowships to attract outstand ing students to continue their education here. A fellowship is a monetary gift or grant from in dividuals, foundations, indus- * tries and state and federal IjL funds. |M Dr. George Kunze, ciean of » 1 the graduate college, said about f 1 50 fellowships have been given * out. He said the students chosen f a for fellowships are top students Al an< ^ f e N° ws hips allow them full- ^^1 time work on their studies. |Pr Fellowships are available as a ""form of financial aid, Kunze said, because most students need financial aid to continue on to graduate school. University sponsored fellowships range from $600 to $650 a month, but those sponsored by industries are usually more, Kunze said. Most fellowships for one year, but there are some for two or three years. Fellowships are awarded through academic departments to qualified students. The fel lowships usually require no ser vice, but students are expected to maintain satisfactory acade- #mic work. There also may be a one-fourth time requirement of teaching activities during one semester or one 12-week sum mer session over a year. A stu dent also is expected to register for 12 to 16 credit hours per semester and six hours per six- week summer session. Suzanne St. Clair, a graduate student from Austin, graduated includi in i ration n parel ;d of f! er andtl story. I of simf upportt msofjt' 1 yns. Infi' at no* custati® to jhaptet pliatet ing tw® from the University of Denver last spring with a degree in fi nance. St. Clair is working on a master’s degree in finance at Texas A&M on a Graduate Col lege Merit Fellowship. “I came to A&M because they offered me the most money,” St. Clair said. She said that she must take a minimum of 12 hours each semester and maintain a 3.2 grade-point ratio to receive her fellowship. Assistantships are also avail able to graduate students need ing financial aid to continue their educations. An assistant- ship is different from a fellow ship because students are re quired to work approximately 20 hours a week in their acade mic departments. There are three types of assis tantships: teaching, non teaching and research. At Texas A&M there are ab out 750 teaching, over 400 non teaching, and 375 research assis tantships this semester, Kunze said. He said the pay ranges from $450 to $1,100 a month, depending on experience and field of study. Engineering gra duate students usually make more than the average gra duate. Debbie Moy, a graduate stu dent in the English department, is here on an assistantship. Moy, from Ocean Beach, N.J., gradu ated from the University of Mis souri in 1981. “I came to A&M because the faculty and the facilities in the English department are very good,” Moy said. She said the money offer was better here, because being a teaching assistant waives out-of- state tuition. “I don’t make much money compared to the time I spend grading papers, but not having to pay out-of-state tuition makes up for the pay,” she said. Dr. Leo Berner, associate dean of the graduate college, said the graduate program needs more money to be able to grow the way it should. “To get the best students we need to be able to offer three times the number of fellowships that we do now,” Berner said. He said there is a recruiting program through which repre sentatives from different de partments visit other institutions to try and attract more students to Texas A&M. Some departments have a shortage of students, especially the engineering department, Dr. Kunze said, but the graduate program is expanding each year. Last year about 5,300 stu dents enrolled and this year ab out 5,500 students enrolled. District Dstrovsl 1 \nderi (continued from page 1) physically impossible. Neece said all the property in Brazos County has not been reappraised because the taxing entities in volved did not want to spend the amount of money necessary to do the job. “We didn’t have the money to hire people needed to do the job they (the taxing entities) evi dently expected,” he said. “In the interest of saving tax dollars and by verbal agreement, the taxing entities said they would turn over all the information necessary to perform the appraisals. That’s what we based our low budget on. “If they weren’t going to give us the information, our budget would’ve been twice what it was.” The appraisal district budget for 1982 was $419,000. Neece said a complete reappraisal in one year would require a budget of at least $750,000. He said the appraisal district’s board of dire- ctors and the taxing entities did not want to spend that much money. Wheeler said based on the av erage amount spent by other counties, the budget for the Bra zos County appraisal district would have been about $697,000. The 1983 budget request is for $618,000. That budget has been disapproved by two of the five taxing entities in Brazos County. If three vote for dis approval, then the appraisal dis trict must prepare another budget. The City of College Sta tion will vote on the disapproval at tonight’s city council meeting. The taxing entities in Brazos County are the City of Bryan, the City of College Station, the Bryan Independent School Dis trict, the CSISD and the county. “The CSISD has not been cooperative,” Neece said. “They have refused to give us some in formation and any help they have given has been in a deroga tory manner.” Neece cited the appraisal of new improvements in rural areas as an example of the lack of cooperation. “When my appraisers went out to measure the property, we found out the school district had already done the appraisals,” he said. “I called them to get the information because it would save us about three weeks of work. “Faye Davis refused to give us the information on new im provements in rural areas of the school district until after we had completed the measurements ourselves. Don Ney refused and Superintendent Bill Anderson refused to give us the informa tion. “We did the measurements ourselves, and it took us three weeks.” Davis said: “To my know ledge, he never sent appraisers out to measure the new rural im provements. We did the appraisals as a monitoring mea sure.” Ney said the Peveto Bill’s charge is clear. “The bill says that beginning in 1982, property shall be reap praised at full market value,” he said. Now you know United Press International The first co-ed dormitory in the United States was estab lished at the University of Ore gon in 1893. Y - : I " , 'i: - »THE STORE w. ! , -- ■ LOOKING FOR... 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