georgian

Had to go up one more person in the bureaucracy, but they agreed to pay my fees! On another note, has anyone received the $2,000 being retroactively applied for last year? My school (allegedly) hasn't heard anything about it from NSF. On yet another note, anyone here doing GROW, and if so, did you receive the travel stipend from NSF yet? Not sure if they didn't send it along yet or if my university has lost that as well...

It's only $122, so I'm mostly just venting. Doesn't help that I just saw this page detailing how Oregon State treats their fellows. Looks like I went to the wrong school... http://gradschool.oregonstate.edu/finance/nsf-fellows

Unfortunately, that's who I've been dealing with. She says that since they are paying for fellows health insurance this year out of the COE, they can't pay the fees. Except they have always paid for health insurance for any fellowships, they paid mine last year out of my COE, and even with health insurance and tuition, I'm not using my entire COE. The fees are mandatory for every student (basically a recreation fee, printing fee, etc).

This may be a bit off topic, but I'm a GRFP at Temple and this year they are refusing to pay for my student fees out of my COE. In the past they always have, as GRFPs are exempt for normal graduate fees. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what did you do about it?