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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">The INTENT of the remuneration policy is for Masters/PhD students to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>take home at least <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></u>25K$/30K$ from
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">This was laid out explicitly in the previous version of the policy, with support for tuition and various fees treated separately. Since these cannot be explicitly reimbursed per NSERC rules, we needed
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Note the policy specifies a MINIMUM. A supervisor can offer more, if they so wish</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">“from all sources” means amounts from TRIUMF, teaching assistance-ships, and provisions for awards/scholarships/fellowships (more on these below).
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">So … Step 1: the new policy now specifies stipend minima of 27K$/32K$, which are 2K$ more than before</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">That additional 2K$ is allocated to pay for student fees (incl. bus passes, health) that EVERY student must pay from their stipends. These vary by 2K +/- few hundred dollars across the country. Consequently,
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Step 2: About half of students must pay tuition out of their stipends, while the others get a “tuition award” from their university to pay for the tuition. Tuitions are around 6 +/- 2K nationwide.
Consequently, we were not able to address this expense by just increasing the base amount (like we did for fees above) as this would introduce gross inequities.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">So, students may submit in writing to their supervisor and HR in a “Request for Extraordinary Financial Conditions” each year that those conditions arise. <br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Main principle is that treatment of the award is “subject to the intentions and requirements of the funder”. i.e., what did the funder<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>intend</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">So, “major” awards clearly intended to provide living support (e.g. NSERC awards) over more than one year will have 75% of the award amount counted toward the total support (“from all sources”), with
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">One-time awards, such as entrance awards, intended as merit-based top ups for the students are NOT to be counted towards the minimum. Those are for the students to keep in full.</span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l13 level1 lfo15">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">However, TUITION AWARDS, which many (but not all) departments provide, are also not considered towards their stipend minima, since these awards are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>clearly
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appointees”. As such they are <u>eligible</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for financial support, just like sabbatical visitors, but that does NOT mean ‘obligated to get’.
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This is a touchy subject – local departments have complained about inequities amongst their student body if TRIUMF were to top up their GSVs with additional financial support. One such department threatened to pull their students from TRIUMF altogether if
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documentation, and managing requests for financial assistance. GSRAs will be entered as a class of TRIUMF Employee (Graduate Student), while GSVs will be entered as a class of Contingent Worker (Graduate Visitor Appointee). <span class="apple-converted-space">
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Stay tuned for further details on that. In the meantime, if you are wondering, feel free to send me a message.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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A Host is “accountable and responsible” for their visitor vis a vis adherence to TRIUMF policies, training, and workplace safety. Hosts must be TRIUMF staff. This role is separate from that of the GSV’s research supervisor, who (obviously) oversees the
student’s research activities. Often Hosts and Research Supervisors are the same person (especially for GSRAs), but sometimes they are not. So Affiliates, Joint Appointments, Emeriti certainly CAN continue to be Research Supervisors for both GSVs and GSRAs
– this privilege is written into their appointments – even if they can’t be their Hosts. So despite the changes in the Grad Student and Visitor policies, nothing really changes for Affiliates, etc with regards to the research supervision of their students.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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to remove common sense from the calculus. The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>one<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>bedrock principle is that students get a minimum of 25K/30K take home to live o</b>n
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