If they're giving her a stipend in exchange for doing a job for them then she is a self-employed person contracted to work for the university. If they are just giving her the stipend for being a student then you can maybe make the argument that she is not an employee or self-employed individual. But the IRS is pretty stringent about 1099-NECs.
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