[Poscgrad] Call for Applications: Graduate Division's 2025-26 Competitive Fellowship Awards
Marissa Brookes
mbrookes at ucr.edu
Fri Dec 20 12:41:08 PST 2024
Dear POSC Graduate Students,
This is a reminder of the call for applications and upcoming deadline
(*internal
deadline: Monday, December 23*) for Graduate Division's competitive
fellowship awards for 2024-25. See below.
Those applying should *also email application materials directly to me* (
mbrookes at ucr.edu) in addition to uploading them via the link in case there
are any issues with the online system.
Happy Holidays,
MB
--
Marissa Brookes
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies,
Department of Political Science
Faculty Co-Director, Inland Empire Labor and Community Center
University of California, Riverside
Watkins 2223
(951) 827-5510
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 12:01 PM Marissa Brookes <mbrookes at ucr.edu> wrote:
> Dear POSC Graduate Students,
>
> I am writing to inform you of the call for applications and upcoming
> deadline (*internal deadline: Monday, December 23*) for Graduate
> Division's competitive fellowship awards for 2024-25. These competitive
> awards are for continuing students to receive recognition for their
> outstanding achievements and support them to graduate. The purpose of these
> programs is to relieve students of teaching or equivalent work so that they
> may focus on their dissertations and complete their PhDs in a timely
> manner. Please note that departments are no longer guaranteed allocated
> fellowships. Also, there is no more GRMP. Instead, there are 3 fellowship
> opportunities for PhD students who have advanced to candidacy and have a
> GPA of 3.5 or higher: the DCFA, the DYP, and the DD-HSI.
>
> This year there is one link for students to apply for all fellowship: *https://grad.ucr.edu/portal/current_fellow_apps
> <https://grad.ucr.edu/portal/current_fellow_apps>*
>
> Attached to this email is a document from Graduate Division that provides
> more information on eligibility. Please read the attachment as well.
>
>
> *Dissertation Completion Fellowship Awards (DCFAs)*
>
>
> - These awards support PhD students to complete their degrees *this*
> current academic year.
> - *The students must already be well into the process of writing their
> dissertations and ready to graduate within the timeframe of the award.
> Failure to graduate by the end of this academic year (Spring 2025 or Summer
> 2025) may result in Graduate Division barring the department from all
> future DCFA nominates until all of our DCFA recipients graduate. Please
> only apply to this award if you are sure you are going to graduate by the
> end of this academic year.*
> - This award provides support for up to 2 quarters and must be used in
> the Spring and/or Summer of 2025.
> - Students will not be eligible for any UCR employment after this
> award.
> - Students will receive $10,000 stipend per quarter and paid tuition.
> - These awards ONLY support students who will complete their degree
> this current academic year.
> - The Political Science Department is allowed to nominate *up to 3 *
> students for DCFAs; however, Graduate Division expects to support *only
> ~50% *of nominations across campus.
> - Applications require a *1 page max. research statement,* a *detailed
> timeline* (see example in the attached doc), *and a letter of **recommendation
> from their dissertation advisor including their explicit acknowledgement of
> your plans to graduate within the award period*.
>
> Again, I want to draw your attention to new language by Graduative
> Division in their call for applications that specifies the following: *"Any
> programs that do not graduate previous DCFA recipients are not eligible to
> nominate students in the next award cycle."*
>
> *Dissertation Year Fellowship Awards (DYFAs)*
>
>
> - These fellowships support PhD students for 3 quarters with a $12,000
> stipend per quarter and paid tuition.
> - These awards *ONLY* support outstanding students *going into* their
> *final* year of their PhD starting in the next academic year (2025/26).
> - The Political Science Department may only nominate *1* student for
> this award.
> - Only 3 students (across campus) will receive this award.
> - Applications require a *2 page max. research statement,* a *diversity
> statement*, and *2 letters of recommendation.*
> - Please use this link to submit your application: DYFA:
> https://grad.ucr.edu/register/DYFA_Award_App
>
> *DD-HSI Pre-Professoriate Fellowship Award *
>
>
> - The DD-HSI awards have not changed.
> - The fellowship supports outstanding students with 3 quarters at
> $12,000 stipend per quarter and paid tuition and comes with a $10,000
> grant.
> - Eligibility for these awards *requires a terminal degree from a
> Californian HSI.* This includes UCR. For the UCOP list, please see:
> https://www.ucop.edu/graduate-studies/_files/list-of-ca-hsis.pdf
> - A Masters degree from within a PhD program does *not* qualify.
> - Our department has the opportunity to nominate 1 student for this
> award.
> - 3 students (across campus) will receive this award.
> - Applications require a 2 page max. research statement, a diversity
> statement and 2 letters of recommendation.
> - Please use this link to submit your application: HSI:
> https://grad.ucr.edu/register/HSI_Award_App
>
>
> Your applications are due *no later than 9:00 AM on Monday, December 23. *Please
> note that this date is an internal POSC deadline and therefore *EARLIER* than
> the one listed in the attached PDF. After our internal (departmental)
> review of applications, we will send our nominations to Graduate Division. Nominated
> applications will then be reviewed by faculty on the Graduate Council.
>
>
>
> *Please read the attached application guidelines* *thoroughly* before
> beginning your application. The Committee emphasizes generating *a
> high-quality proposal*. Attached is advice for writing a strong proposal.
> In writing your proposal, we encourage you to prioritize the advice of the
> POSC Graduate Committee, as conveyed in the attached document, while also
> fulfilling the criteria set out by Grad Division on the official online
> form. In other words, please follow our advice in the attached document,
> but also keep in mind that research statements should be understandable to,
> and convey the impact to, faculty outside of POSC. Support for students
> writing their applications can be found at the GradSuccess Writing Center:
> *https://gwc.ucr.edu/ <https://gwc.ucr.edu/> *We strongly encourage
> students to submit draft proposals to faculty advisors and incorporate
> their feedback before submitting their proposals. *Finally, please
> request your recommendation letter(s) from faculty ASAP.*
>
> All the best,
> MB
> --
> Marissa Brookes
> Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies,
> Department of Political Science
> Faculty Co-Director, Inland Empire Labor and Community Center
> University of California, Riverside
> Watkins 2223
> (951) 827-5510
>
>
> P.S. See the attached PDF for eligibility criteria. Note that *n**ormative
> time to degree in our department is six years*. Therefore, any candidate
> who would be beyond normative time plus one year (that is, 7 years of
> enrollment) during their fellowship quarter would *not* be eligible to
> apply. Here, it is important to note that each student’s total enrollment
> may be counted differently if there are enrollment irregularities in their
> previous history:
>
> · If a student is enrolled or on filing fee, these quarters count
> toward normative time.
>
> · Students "In absentia" are enrolled, so these quarters count
> toward normative time.
>
> · Students on half-time status are enrolled half-time, so these
> quarters are counted as 0.5 instead of 1.
>
> · Students on leave, “Ready to Enroll” (RD) status, or Withdrawn are
> not active; these quarters do not count towards normative time.
>
> Before deciding to apply, please calculate your own normative time
> eligibility correctly, based on the above criteria.
>
>
> Here is the application link again: *https://grad.ucr.edu/portal/current_fellow_apps
> <https://grad.ucr.edu/portal/current_fellow_apps>*
>
>
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