[Cwgrad-announcements] TA Update

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Ky-Phong and Gabriela,

Thanks for all your hard work on the founding front.

Rob R

--- cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Dear First Years, Now Second Years,
> 
>       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.
> 
>       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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Ky-Phong and Gabriela,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Please feel free to contact me if you would like to
> discuss this 
> further.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Dallas
> 
> 
> 
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