CUNY GC PhD Funding

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Does anyone - through personal experience, research, or hearsay of friends - know what the offer of a five year Graduate Teaching Fellowship entails? I'm sure I'll get the details in two weeks at the interview, but am curious to know as soon as possible in order to properly evaluate a few other offers.

I've also heard that the program has deteriorated a bit in the past few years... Any word to substantiate/refute that claim would be helpful. (If it affects your opinion - I'd be working with Gail Levin and Anna Chave on early 20th C American figurative art.)

Many thanks in advance and best of luck to all!

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I know the reputation outside of New York is not as prestigious as IFA's and Columbia's doctoral program holds more esteem. However, if your POI holds weight in your field - I wouldn't worry about this so much.

I think some of the flack is due to how the program is run, over the quality of learning you receive. I know that some of my professional colleagues don't hold CUNY to IFA, even though they are both very large programs. My friend who is a current doctoral student there loves it because there are so many students, she is not hounded by the faculty members as you would be at a smaller school. She is very liberated: allowed to teach her own curriculum in her classes, picks the activities she wants to do (instead of required to do so by her professors) she has a lot of time off-school too. However, I don't know what her funding is outside of GAing.

Since you ARE accepted, you CAN call them right now and ask someone some questions. The Administrative assistant should be able to answer some of them, or you can ask them to put you into contact with a student who is willing talk to you about it life/money there. It honestly can't hurt you.

Edited March 14, 2012 by fullofpink

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Thanks for the response, fullofpink. I plan to call up the Admin tomorrow to see what is typically offered in the package.