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Graduate stipends to rise by 20 percent

YDN Staff Reporter
Published Friday, January 19, 2001

While still not quite making Alex Rodriguez-type money, many Yale graduate students will receive a substantial pay increase next year.

The announcement of the almost 20 percent raise in stipend levels for humanities and social science doctoral students comes in the midst of an ongoing debate about a possible teaching assistant union, and both sides are spinning the issue a different way.

Graduate School Dean Susan Hockfield said the decision to raise standard nine-month stipend levels from $11,500 this year to $13,700 next year for doctoral students and scholars studying on...

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