December 14, 2001

Harvard and Yale Act to Increase Their Support for Graduate Students

By PIPER FOGG

Harvard University announced late last month that it would spend $4-million more annually to increase support for graduate students. The financing will expand fellowships in the humanities and social sciences and will let science departments phase out teaching requirements in the first year of Ph.D. programs.

The same day, Yale University announced it would increase its standard graduate-student stipend by about 9 percent. The move, which will raise stipends to $15,000 for the 2002-3

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