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MU: No Major Changes Planned for Graduate Assistantships

Nathan Lawrence

MU is not planning to eliminate or dramatically reduce graduate student assistantships next year, a university spokesperson said Wednesday.

“We’re absolutely continuing assistantships,” Liz McCune of the MU News Bureau said.

While colleges and departments evaluate their budgets and establish priorities each year, McCune said she doesn’t expect dramatic cuts to the number of assistantships offered across the university. More than 2,000 MU graduate students hold assistantships or fellowships, McCune said.

Rumors that MU is planning to cut assistantships “have been circulating,” Michael Vierling, co-chair of the Coalition of Graduate Workers, said in an email. Vierling said he asked Jeni Hart, dean of the graduate school, “if they contained any truth.”

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