Tuition is a fringe benefit provided for all graduate assistants, and we include it as part of the budget request to sponsors.  If a department wants to provide it as part of cost sharing, it is a real cost they must cover.

Lori A. Burchard
Director, Sponsored Programs
Kent State University
330-672-7946

-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Bonnie Kwit
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 9:19 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] stipends and tuition for GAs on grants

We have a tuition waiver plan here, but with the uncertainty of enough money
being available to fund all tuition, I always budget/request stipends and
tuition from the sponsor.  There has never been a problem receiving the full
amount requested for grad asst. stipends and the tuition.  We request 16
credits per year per student and a stipend of $7K per semester.

Bonnie Kwit
Grant and Contract Officer
Oakland University
505 Wilson Hall
Rochester, MI   48308
(248) 370-4116
xxxxxx@oakland.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of
Tom Kornacki
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 9:05 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] stipends and tuition for GAs on grants

Good morning colleagues,

I'd like to hear how other institutions handle tuition and stipends for
their graduate assistants on grants. Historically, we have asked our
sponsors--federal, state, local, private, industry--for the stipend while we
have cost-shared the tuition with a waiver. However, as our state budget
tightens even further, we will not likely have a sufficient pool of tuition
dollars to provide as many waivers as we have in the past. I realize that
many of our typical sponsors have no restrictions on requests for both
stipend and waiver, but since we have never made such requests, I wonder if
a gradual transition to such a practice might be prudent rather than to
simply start asking for both all of a sudden. We also handle a lot of
internships where we provide the student with a tuition waiver but ask our
sponsor for the stipend. Of course we could ask our students to pay their
own tuition, but I'm curious to hear how you all do things in your shops.

Cheers,

Tom

Tom Kornacki
Acting Director
Sponsored Programs & Research
Bowling Green State University
106 University Hall
Bowling Green, OH 43403
419-372-2481

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