Ernie Stout, associate provost for research, explained that President Paul Torgersen added a sentence to section 4.10 of the University Plan for 1996-2001. Furthermore, we must acknowledge the competitive nature of financial support for research and teaching assistants and for graduate scholarships. He said physics would be the first discipline to be reviewed.
Research is part of the educational enterprise.
The question is whether undergraduates are subsidizing graduate education. Anything that weakens doctoral programs is a spear in the chest of research programs. Muffo said there is only one institution in the state where more than half of the graduate students receive some form of financial support. At UVa, fewer than half of the graduate students receive support, although this is because of the numbers of medical and law students, who don't traditionally receive such support.