[Poscgrad] Call for Applications: Graduate Division's 2025-26 Competitive Fellowship Awards
Marissa Brookes
mbrookes at ucr.edu
Tue Nov 26 12:01:05 PST 2024
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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