COLA Graduate Student External Award Supplement Fund

1. COLA will fund the Graduate Student External Award Supplement Fund at $50,000 per year, to support applications from COLA graduate students over the course of the academic year 
2. Only one request for supplemental funding (not to exceed amount of health insurance and/or tuition) per student is allowed in any given year, and only two requests are allowed over any three-year period
3. All COLA graduate units will be eligible to apply for their graduate students, with the following conditions:
   • Funds are meant to cover the cost of COLA tuition and/or student health insurance during the duration of prestigious external fellowship
   • Students should be within six years of their current COLA degree program at the time of receipt of award
   • MA students are eligible to apply, but FLAS fellowships are excluded from this fund. The college is working on a separate solution to address FLAS insurance costs.
4. Applications submitted by the graduate advisor or graduate coordinator (on behalf of the student) will be accepted—and funding decisions made—on a rolling basis 
5. Departments should also be providing some funding or supplemental support to the graduate student
6. Award amounts will be determined by need and availability of funds

At this link, departmental graduate advisors or coordinators must submit applications on behalf of the student via Qualtrics survey and will upload a copy of the external funding offer to UTBox.  (UTBox link is also within the Qualtrics application.) 

The application requires: 

• Department Information, including Graduate Advisor or Graduate Coordinator name and email
• Graduate student name, EID, and email 
• Graduate student entry cohort 
• External Fellowship Award Type/Name
• Dissertation or research project title 
• Dissertation or research project abstract (250 words or less) 
• Department contribution and/or provided student support
• Funding request type (tuition and/or insurance) and amount(s)  
• Proposed Academic Year and Semester(s) 
• List department contribution and/or other support (e.g., OGS Dean’s Prestigious Fellowship Supplement) requested or received for the project

• Funds distributed for tuition may be applied directly to the student’s fee bill  
• Awardees will be responsible for reporting on degree progress by the end of the specified period 
• Receipt of funding comes with the agreement that COLA may feature awardee’s projects on its website and/or in communications about institutional investments in humanities and social science scholarship

The College of Liberal Arts (COLA) administers a fund to support COLA graduate students who obtain large (usually $15,000 or more), competitive, prestigious external fellowships to support their degree work and dissertations. This fund is specifically intended to defray health insurance and tuition costs for graduate students when their external fellowships do not cover these costs, and at times, to assist the student getting to the COLA PhD graduate student minimum funding level. Department or home program support is required as part of this request. This fund cannot substitute for other sources of internal funding, including the Dean’s Prestigious Fellowship Supplement offered by the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. The goal is to support COLA graduate student fellowship-seeking and research activity and to enable timely degree completion.

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