October 20, 2022 - Grad Guide

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Redowan Kabir Kaushik, a graduate student in the architecture school, poses for a portrait outside of Stamp Student Union. For international students such as Kaushik, higher stipends could alleviate financial barriers such as visas, strict working hours and limited family support. (frances o’connor/the diamondback)

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UMD graduate students reflect on end of Ford foundation diversity fellowship

By Nene Narh-Mensah | @Nene_NarhMensah | Staff writer

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 decision, 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 other award winners. The awards are geared toward students working in a variety of

fields, according to Walker, and are currently administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

The education landscape has improved for funding opportunities for graduate 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 program and the Graduate Student Government president, said the foundation’s decision will decrease opportunities for students to pursue advanced degrees.

“The exorbitant cost around graduate school and also just higher education in general continues to be a barrier for historically minoritized and marginalized communities,” 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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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)

Munson agreed with Haavik.

Munson received a Ford Foundation fellowship in April for his research into the intersection 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 fellows 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 negative impact on the accessibility of graduate studies, especially for underrepresented communities, he said.

Many of the organizations Walker listed in his announcement that financially support students have fellow-

ships geared toward undergraduate students, Munson said.

“That’s certainly a different 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 physics professor at the university, said there weren’t many fellowships in the field of thermodynamics, 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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UMD GSG passes resolutions on workers’ rights information, student fee transparency

By Marwa Barakat | @marwa_b10 | Staff writer

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

The resolution, authored by Lizzie Irlbacher, “supports gathering information about workers’ rights abuses and violations that are occurring to graduate students.” The goal of gathering the data is to understand the extent and types of abuses graduate assistants face while also recording and documenting 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 Student 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 representatives abstaining from the vote.

The body also unanimously passed

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

a resolution written by GSG President Joey Haavik that calls on the GSG to continue survey research initiated by the last assembly to increase transparency surrounding student fees and understand their impact on graduate students.

Currently, part-time graduate students 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 leaders to speak accurately to the graduate student body and gives them credibility and influence when they make arguments 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 graduate 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 senior 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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Academic Deadlines Fall 2022 Nov. 11 — Dissertation forms due Dec. 7 — Thesis forms due

March 1 — Thesis committee nomination

Spring 2023

Summer 2023 July 10 — Graduation application due

July 14 — Thesis committee nomi-

April 18 — dissertation forms due nation due July 28 — Dissertation forms due Jan. 6 — Master’s programs/ April 25 — Thesis forms due May 15 — Nomination of disserta- Aug. 11 — Thesis forms due post-baccalaureate certificates Aug. 25 — Master’s programs/ Jan. 19 — Degree appears on record tion committee form due for master’s, doctoral students May 30 — Master’s programs/ post-baccalaureate certificates

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