February 2, 2001

Yale Increases Stipends for Ph.D. Students by 20%

By JENNIFER JACOBSON

Yale University, which is fighting a unionization push by its teaching assistants, announced in January that nine-month stipends for Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences would increase by 20 percent, to $13,700, this fall.

Susan Hockfield, dean of the Yale graduate school, wrote in a memorandum to graduate students and faculty members, "This year's unusually large increase is motivated by our desire to remain competitive with other leading

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