| The college offers low tuition and the department has a generous endowment for student awards and assistantships. |
| By contract, assistantships employ graduate students for a certain number of hours per week. |
| Such experiences include teaching assistantships in botany or biology courses, faculty-supervised research, and off-campus internships. |
| The percentage of students with assistantships for teaching and research ranged from a high value of 100 percent to a low value of zero percent. |
| The college offers low tuition fees and the department has a generous endowment for student awards and assistantships. |
| That seemed almost obscene to someone who was used to graduate assistantships that were essentially break even propositions. |
