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linguistlist.org>All throughout the fund drive we tell you over and over again that your donations go to support our graduate students. Well, we thought that we would spell out how much it costs to fund our students so that you can get an idea of why you support is so crucial! Cost of a Graduate Assistants (GA), Student workers and Trainees at LINGUIST: LINGUIST List offers job opportunities to various types of students. There are GAs, student workers, trainees and permanent employees. A GA is a student studying in graduate program at EMU and works for a department. This position is a position with responsibilities when some body is at the organization like LINGUIST List. Here a GA works in his own area of expertise for the linguist community and to serve them at best. A GA assumes all responsibility for the work area and has an obligation to work for the department for a contracted period. For his/her work department pays for tuition fees with a stipend. Thus a GA is an investment for the department. LINGUIST List pays $11/hour as stipend and since LL offers it services to international community, it also hires international students also to have in-house expertise in languages. We have people who speak Italian, UK English, Hindi, Talgu, Tamil, Kannada, Japanese, Chinese, German, Spanish and French etc. Isn't this a great combination of a crew? LINGUIST List also pays for tuition fees for its GAs. Current rate of tuition fees is 548.10/credit hour for international students and $270.25 as instate tuition fees which means 9,866/academic year for one international GA and $4,865/ academic year for instate student. LL has five international GAs and four full time and one half-time instate GA. This means $71,219/academic year if all GAs take 18 credit hour (6 classes a year). Also each GA work for about 20 hours per week during fall/winter semesters (about 35 weeks). This will add another $77,000 paid as stipend. Tuition mainly comes from grants but stipend is managed from other sources out of which major source is donations. Total: $148,219/year. Though most of the tuition fees is covered by grants, we still need your help as grants do not cover most of stipend part. Student workers are temporary employees hired for some specific task. LL employs graduate students for various tasks including database programmers for database mining, fashion designers for gift premium design and various important tasks to run LL smoothly. LL compensate themMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
linguistlist.org>This Year the LINGUIST List hope to raise $60,000. This money will go to help keep the List running, by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year. There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST! You can donate right now using our secure credit card form, at: http://www.linguistlist.org/donate.html You can also pledge right now and pay later, at: http://www.linguistlist.org/pledge.html For all information on donating, including information on how to donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit: http://www.linguistlist.org/donation.html ALREADY PLEDGED? If you have already pledged to LINGUIST and would now like to pay by credit card, please go to: http://linguistlist.org/creditcard-general.html and select 'PAY PREVIOUS PLEDGE' as the Type of Payment from the dropdown list provided. The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as such can receive donations through the EMU Foundation, which is a registered 501(c) Non Profit organization. Our Federal Tax number is 38-6005986. These donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your state tax return (U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor. Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match any gift you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this entails your contacting your human resources department and sending us a form that the EMU Foundation fills in and returns to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative procedure that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if your company operates such a program. Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
linguistlist.org>LINGUIST Contributors Mainstays ($100 to $1000) Arienne M. Dwyer Bernadine W. Raiskums Laura Callahan Mary Bucholtz Michael Silverstein Minako O'Hagan World Wide Words - Plus 3 anonymous donors Supporters ($50 to $100) Anne Bezuidenhout Centro Giacomo Piuccini - Italian language school Christopher Johnson Edward Garrett Joseph F. Eska Mira Ariel School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield Shanley Allen Stefano Bertolo Veronika Koller - Plus one anonymous donor Donors (Up to $50) Adam Schembri Anders Ahlqvist Diana C. Cook Heather Lee Taylor James L. Fidelholtz, Rosa G. Montes Olena Drozd Ora Matushansky Richard Waltereit Uri Strauss Ute Smit WIM VANDENBUSSCHE, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL - Plus 3 anonymous donors ************************************************************ MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS Blackwell Publishing http://www.blackwellpublishing.com CSLI Publications http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/ Cambridge University Press http://www.cup.org Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com Elsevier Ltd. http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics Equinox Publishing Ltd. http://www.equinoxpub.com/ Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl Kingston Press Ltd Kluwer Academic Publishers http://www.wkap.nl/ http://www.kluweronline.com Lawrence Erlbaum Associates http://www.erlbaum.com/ MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Mouton de Gruyter http://www.mouton-publishers.com Oxford University Press http://www.oup-usa.org/ Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS Anthropological Linguistics http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/ Arawak Publications Canadian Journal of Linguistics http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=cjl/cjl.html Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass International Pragmatics Assoc. http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ Linguistic Assoc. of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ MIT Working Papers in Linguistics http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Pearson Longman http://www.pearsoneduc.com/discipline.asp?d=LG SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp St. Jerome Publishing Ltd. http://www.stjerome.co.uk Utrecht Institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ ************************************************************ INSTITUTIONS ATA SpA Babel Technologies SA Butler Hill Group California State University, Fresno California State University, Fullerton Central Michigan University Cornell University de Taalstudio Georgetown University H5 Technologies iLumin Software Services International Graduate School of English Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit�t Frankfurt La Trobe University Michigan State University Middlesex University MIT Motorola National Chi Nan University National University of Singapore Northern Illinois University Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Princeton University Queen Mary, University of London Saarland University Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi The George Washington University The Ohio State University The State University of New York at Buffalo The University of Auckland Toshiba Research Europe Ltd TUniversity at Albany University oc Cyprus University of British Columbia University of Colorado University of Edinburgh University of Groningen University of Maryland, College Park University of Massachusetts/Amherst University of Puerto Rico-R�o Piedras University of Victoria Villanova UniversityMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue