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Faculty Assembly

Graduate School Fellowships
Requirements, Criteria, and Evaluation Process
The Graduate School
Spring 2001

 

Requirements:

  1. US Citizen or Permanent Resident
  2. On-campus, full-time (min 9 credit hours/semester) degree-seeking graduate student
  3. Merit-based, not a need-based, award
  4. Award made for one year, split between fall and spring semesters (after student registers)
  5. Student provides letter of progress/issues to Grad School at end of fall semester.
  6. Nomination process is initiated by graduate program directors – students do not “apply” as with other financial aid.

Criteria:

  1. Recipient's record and potential must reflect outstanding academic quality.
  2. Award should have potential to impact graduate enrollment (e.g., could this outstanding student go somewhere else, and this award would be instrumental in attracting that student to CU-Springs?)
  3. Other factors (e.g., outstanding student applying to a program on probation, and/or suffering low enrollment)

Evaluations (score each 1-5, 5 = best):

  1. Quality of past academic record (GPA, GRE, challenging major, etc.)
  2. Quality/strength of previously attended institutions (Stanford vs. Slippery Rock)
  3. Strength of letters of recommendation from department/program director
  4. Strength of other letters of recommendation, including considerations regarding the individual making the recommendation (former professor vs. neighbor).
  5. Likelihood of award having an impact on enrollment and/or retention (e.g., student considering other options, fellowship will somehow make a difference)
  6. Strength, maturity, quality of the student’s statement of purpose, goals etc. for grad school
  7. Other factors (e.g., situation of the particular grad program).