[PhDs] Stanford Stipend increase for next year sucks...

[Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi]

That does suck!! Thanks for noticing Mark (love the chart!). I’m on board if we wanted to escalate this and have a discussion about it with the admins! 


Hope you’re all well and enjoying summer! <3 
Kimia 




















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Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi 
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> On Aug 11, 2022, at 12:48 PM, Nolan Lem <nolan.lem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey Mark, 
> 
> Great that you noticed this, is this a departmental thing or is this being applied more broadly across all PhD stipends? 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 7:55 PM Mark Rau <mrau at ccrma.stanford.edu <mailto:mrau at ccrma.stanford.edu>> wrote:
> In case anyone wants to get angry, I charted the stipend increase vs. inflation <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dcZ65WT7dyWk_MdgeVLtEPEOC_JnE3VjiE6QdRY92J0/edit?usp=sharing>. It is based on a 50% RA quarterly stipend. We are getting shafted next year, they only increased the stipends by 2% (as opposed to the typical ~4%). And this is especially bad since inflation for 2022 is sitting at 8.5% and was 7% in 2021 (when we had a 3.25% stipend increase, also bad).
> 
> Not sure if there is anyone we can bring this up to, but it's pretty bad. I also thought about adding in the average on-campus housing cost, but I don't have that data (and don't want to calculate it all, but I know it exists somewhere and is also bad). 
> 
> Mark
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