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September 23, 1982
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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;
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'f the si
n foolei
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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
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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.
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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.
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