GSAS Announces Increase In 1958-9 Scholarship Aid

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has increased the average stipend on scholarships for next year to offset the rise in tuition, Reginald H. Phelps '30, associate dean of the GSAS, said last night.

He declined to say whether the increase will keep pace across the board with tuition rises, stating that the exact average increment "will not be known until the end of the academic year when all the figures are in."

Tuition Money for Scholarships

Additional money for scholarships will be made available by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Phelps said. He indicated that a part of the tuition rise will be allocated for financial aid. These arrangements for scholarship increases are similar to plans for more undergraduate aid.

Phelps revaled that about 350 students, or somewhat over 20 percent of the GSAS, are now receiving financial aid from the University. The tuition will rise from $800 to $1000 in 1958-59, the same percentage increase as in the undergraduate situation.

Foundation Gifts Rising

He commented that an additional source of aid is the recent increase in the number of gifts from outside organizations such as the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and others. "The interesting thing," he said, "is that the volume of these grants has increased every year since 1949 or so."

But despite the rise in foundation moneys, Phelps said, fewer students are receiving non-University aid than ten years ago, when a "very large" number of GSAS students were here on the GI Bill. Today very few receive GI aid, he said.