Twelve of the programs target minority recruitment. The fellowship program is a dynamic vehicle that accommodates the administration of awards from sources that may change from year to year. The Graduate School has to make contingency plans for fellowship expenditures that cannot be fully determined until registration, such as the number of NSF students who enroll each year. Awards can range from one semester to five years. This year, the office began to enter waivers directly on Banner, eliminating delays.
Students are very appreciative.
The Banner assistantship transactions that were routed to the Graduate School over a one-year period were analyzed to determine work load peaks. Goals for next year are to resolve procedures that result in unnecessary work. We have had major changes each year to the graduate tuition program since the beginning of the program six years ago. It has taken tremendous energy to keep the 100 or so departments educated and involved with the changes. The transition to UNIX this past year resulted in many problems, but the Disaster Recovery Plan developed last year helped departments re-create data that was lost after several major crashes that erased sectors of fall 2000 tuition.