{"id":846,"date":"2009-08-22T01:01:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T06:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/?p=846"},"modified":"2009-08-22T01:01:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T06:01:32","slug":"trends-in-graduate-student-funding-in-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/2009\/08\/22\/trends-in-graduate-student-funding-in-anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in graduate student funding in anthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/anthro-grad-funding.png\" alt=\"anthro grad funding\" title=\"anthro grad funding\" width=\"448\" height=\"303\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-847\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This may be the last of my demographics posts for a bit, as I have to leave town for this coming week. But I think this may be one of the most important for anthropologists to examine &#8212; grad students in particular. Turns out there are NSF statistics on evolving financial support over time. Here I present the general picture for our field between 1972 and 2006 &#8212; the last 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the major conclusions I&#8217;d draw:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Unfunded (euphemistically &#8220;self-supported&#8221;) people comprise an enormously large fraction of the graduate student body<\/strong>. It used to be above half (56.6% in 1977). Now it&#8217;s down to about a third (35%), but that, of course, still means that one person in three has <em>no financial support from their institution<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The fraction of people with fellowships used to be very low, falling as low as 15.6% (in 1982), and is still a relatively scanty 24.7% of all graduate students. Barely 1 in 4 gets fellowship support, in other words.<\/li>\n<li>The fraction of grad students who support themselves by teaching has been <em>rising<\/em>. In 1977, it used to be as little as 17.3%; it has risen to 30.8%, the largest single form of institutional funding.<\/li>\n<li>Research assistants have formed a fairly small though very slowly growing segment, currently 9.6%, which is fairly close to their average share of 8.8% over the last 35 years.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, more people are getting some sort of funding than they used to, mostly through slow growth in teaching and fellowship support. <strong>65.1% of all students currently get some kind of support.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see that things are improving. But one would like to think that our field overall could manage more financial support for the more than 1 in 3 grad students who are getting nothing.<\/p>\n<p>When I get a chance to come back to this, I may look at federal funding across the social sciences, or perhaps compare funding trends across disciplines&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the last of my demographics posts for a bit, as I have to leave town for this coming week. But I think this may be one of the most important for anthropologists to examine &#8212; grad students in particular. Turns out there are NSF statistics on evolving financial support over time. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[485],"tags":[523,559,580,599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}