[Cwgrad-announcements] TA Update

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Thank-you, Gaby and Ky-Phong, for all your hard work this quarter.

Patrick


>From: cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu
>To: cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu
>Subject: [Cwgrad-announcements] TA Update
>Date: 9 Jun 2006 06:11:37 -0000
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>Dear First Years, Now Second Years,
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>       We hope that as the year ends, you are all well and satisfied with
>your many accomplishments this year!  We have some good news and some bad 
>news:
>We are writing to update you on the TA situation after our meeting
>with Dean Martin yesterday.  The meeting was very brief and the Dean
>informed us he had met with the CFO who now has to go over the new
>budget and catch up after months of delay (not only catch up with our
>budget, but every department's in CHASS, so you can imagine...).  He
>said he really couldn't assure us of anything now and that he had no
>news except that our department's budget is being reviewed and, sadly,
>that's pretty much it-- it is week 10 and, after 4 meetings (2 with
>Associate Dean Coltrane and 2 with Dean Martin) we know little more
>than we did on week 4 when we signed the letter.
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>       On the other hand, we also wrote a letter to our Graduate Dean, 
>Dallas
>Rabenstein, and took it to his office after the meeting
>with Dean Martin.  Below we've pasted the reply he e-mailed us almost
>immediately after and the committment to central fellowship funds for our 
>cohort.
>We would also like to extend a special thanks to Prof. Robin Russin for
>contacting him initially and to Prof. Andrew Winer for following up.
>Fellow students, let's keep our fingers crossed and we hope that we
>will all make it back here in the fall, teaching and writing together!  We 
>wish that we could have written with more promising news and regret that 
>our student advocacy was not as effective as it could have been.
>
>all our best,
>Ky-Phong and Gabriela
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>Dear Ky-Phong and Gabriela,
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>Thank you for your letter to me and the copy of your letter to Dean
>Martin concerning funding for graduate students in the MFA program in
>Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts.  I have limited
>funds for fellowship support and most of what I have is committed in
>the financial supported packages offered to students with the offer
>of admission.  However, as I think you know, I have agreed to provide
>some additional funding for students who entered the program Fall
>2005.  I have no additional funds to support research or Teaching
>Fellowships.  I also have no input on the allocation of TA positions
>to your Departments.
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>Please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss this
>further.
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>Best wishes,
>Dallas
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