October 20, 2022 - Grad Guide

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UMD GRAD STUDENTs REFLECTS ON FORD FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP

GSG RESOLUTIONS ON WORKERs RIGHTS

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UMD graduate students reflect on end of Ford foundation diversity fellowship

By Nene Narh-Mensah | @Nene_NarhMensah | Staffwriter

The Ford Foundation is ending its 60-year-old diversity fellowship program, announced foundation President Darren Walker on Sept. 16.

The fellowship was designed to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of higher education faculties. University of Maryland students and faculty have expressed concern over the foundation’s de cision, saying it could negatively impact graduate students who depend on the fellowship funding.

Fellowship recipients receive an annual stipend and can attend the Conference of Ford Fellows — where they can get personal mentoring and meet with oth er award winners. The awards are geared toward students working in a variety of

fields, according to Walker, and are cur rently administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medi cine.

The education landscape has improved for funding opportunities for grad uate students, Walker said. An increase in philanthropic support from organizations such as the Gates Foundation allowed the organization to redirect funding once put toward the fellowship to other areas of social justice.

“We recognized the need to invest more deeply in movement-building work — an essential catalyst for social change that receives only a fraction of racial equity funding,” Walker wrote in the statement.

The foundation will accept another

cohort of fellows for the 2023 school year and a “limited number” in 2024.

Joey Haavik, a graduate student in the international education policy pro gram and the Graduate Student Government president, said the foundation’s decision will decrease opportunities for students to pursue advanced degrees.

“The exorbitant cost around gradu ate school and also just higher education in general continues to be a barrier for historically minoritized and marginalized com munities,” Haavik said. “When you have a fellowship, like the Ford Foundation’s, come in and fully try to break that system of elitism and supremacism. It really does make a difference.”

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Munson agreed with Haavik.

Munson received a Ford Foundation fellowship in April for his research into the inter section of quantum physics, information theory and thermodynamics.

The doctoral student said though the foundation’s decision is “a bit unfortunate,” he’s happy to have been a part of the legacy the foundation left.

“There are many fel lows who form a community that I get to be a part of, so I’m looking forward to being a part of that,” Munson said.

Still, the gap left by the foundation may have a nega tive impact on the accessibility of graduate studies, especially for underrepresented commu nities, he said.

Many of the organiza tions Walker listed in his an nouncement that financially support students have fellow

ships geared toward under graduate students, Munson said.

“That’s certainly a dif ferent issue, especially if one is concerned with the development of minority educators and researchers,” Munson said.

Haavik said fellowships are often very specific, which limits the numbers of eligible students.

Nicole Halpern, a phys ics professor at the university, said there weren’t many fellowships in the field of ther modynamics, especially for those with “foundational inclinations” such as Munson.

Munson said he sees the Ford Foundation’s legacy as a “great benefit to society.”

“Hopefully there will be other organizations and people who want to continue the fellowship’s prior mission to help minority scholars,” Munson said.

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Anthony Munson poses next to the Testudo statue in front of McKeldin Library on Oct. 1, 2022. Munson is a recipient of the Ford Foundation’s fellowship. (jess daninhirsch/the diamondback)

UMD GSG passes resolutions on workers’ rights information, student fee transparency

By Marwa Barakat | @marwa_b10 | Staffwriter

The University of Maryland GSG passed resolutions in support of gath ering information on graduate workers’ rights violations during its second as sembly session of the year Sept. 16.

The resolution, authored by Lizzie Irlbacher, “supports gathering infor mation about workers’ rights abuses and violations that are occurring to graduate students.” The goal of gather ing the data is to understand the extent and types of abuses graduate assistants face while also recording and docu menting them.

“We’re not classified as employees. It leaves us in a very confusing gray space,” Irlbacher, a political science

doctoral student and the Graduate Stu dent Government’s legislative affairs vice president, said.

According to the resolution, there is no written documentation of workers’ rights violations because complaints get passed around various offices through word of mouth alone. Because of that, there is no way to track changes in the abuses against graduate workers.

After representatives added a privacy policy stating no personal identifiable information would be collected with the information, the resolution passed almost unanimously with two repre sentatives abstaining from the vote.

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a resolution written by GSG President Joey Haavik that calls on the GSG to continue survey research initiated by the last assembly to increase transpar ency surrounding student fees and un derstand their impact on graduate stu dents.

Currently, part-time graduate stu dents pay $312.50 per semester and full-time graduate students pay $605 per semester in student fees.

Annie Rappeport, a former member of the student fee review committee, said the survey work allows GSG lead ers to speak accurately to the graduate student body and gives them credibility and influence when they make argu ments regarding the required fees.

“It helps us to see and get a pulse of where people are, what they’re feeling

and the impact financial stressors have in graduate student life,” Rappeport, an international education policy doctoral student, said.

Although these resolutions don’t equate to actionable items, Haavik said they are important in bringing gradu ate students’ concerns to the university administration’s attention, especially during the GSG’s quarterly meetings with university President Darryll Pines.

“It’s the time where we get to have the ears of all the different departments that are charging the fees, as well as se nior administrators and the president of the university, to bring up why financial stress is so common among graduate students,” Rappeport said.

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Members participate in the GSG assembly on Sept. 16, 2022. (marwa barakat/the diamondback)

Academic Deadlines

Fall 2022

Nov. 11 — Dissertation forms due Dec. 7 — Thesis forms due

Winter 2023

Jan. 6 — Master’s programs/ post-baccalaureate certificates Jan. 19 — Degree appears on record for master’s, doctoral students and post-baccalaureate certifi cate students Feb. 7 — Graduation application due Feb. 21 — Nomination of dissertation committee form due

March 1 — Thesis committee nom ination

Spring 2023 April 18 — dissertation forms due April 25 — Thesis forms due May 15 — Nomination of dissertation committee form due May 30 — Master’s programs/ post-baccalaureate certificates June 12 — Degree appears on re cord for master’s, doctoral students and post-baccalaureate certificate students

Summer 2023

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