<p>Graduate students across the 23-campus system began receiving financial aid notices this week and were astonished to see that the State University Grant that takes care of tuition for low-income students was missing. In its place was the offer of a federal loan at 6.8 percent interest.</p>
<p>Read more: CSU</a> may pull cash grants to half its grad students</p>
<p>Well, good. Why should taxpayers be paying for grad school for college graduates? 2 years grad school at a CSU is 16k in tuition–not an insurmountable mountain. A few extra years in the work force or taking it out in loans is reasonable in my eyes. It is not like these are helpless non-college graduates!</p>
<p>I didn’t even know grad students got grants. At their school, both my daughter’s and her fiance’s Grad programs will pay them stipends, but they have to work as Teacher’s Assistants and/or Research Assistants to earn the stipends. (Which they are both really excited about).</p>
<p>OP, you’ve posted the identical thread in three different forums. This a big topic for you? ;)</p>
<p>I guess it is. I don’t know the final ramifications to this. It isn’t all that simple that it means more money for undergrads. If there are not the grad students, it often means, professors who want this workforce for their research won’t go to those universities. It also means fewer classes in a discipline, because grad students are often used for recitation sessions, lab courses, and even teaching. I know some universities using undergrads for such uses, and I don’t know how that will compare overall with those models using a student who has proven his knowledge in the fields, and are more mature. Just don’t know enough about it.</p>
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It’s not an issue for me at all - so far as I can tell. I just posted the news article into each forum I thought it was relevant for people to see and know about in case they were not aware. Not everyone who scours the FA forum ALSO scour the CA colleges, or Grad school forum too (or any combination thereof).</p>
<p>Tuition grants for about 20,000 needy graduate students at California State University are rescued - for now - thanks to a pair of panicked students in San Francisco who gathered thousands of signatures online and mobilized an army of support.</p>
<p>Read more: [CSU</a> graduate students will keep tuition grants](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/18/BA291O57RC.DTL#ixzz1sVCCW0SD]CSU”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/18/BA291O57RC.DTL#ixzz1sVCCW0SD)</p>