III. Financial SupportGraduate School Financial Support Policy
Full-time, degree-seeking graduate students in good academic standing may be eligible for financial support supplied by the University.
Financial support allotted by the Graduate School for distribution by the department includes: academic year tuition scholarships, graduate assistantships, and departmental fellowships. The Graduate School directly awards summer session tuition scholarships and University fellowships.
Graduate assistants and research assistants should not work more than 17.5 hours per week to earn their stipends. Assistants and fellows who receive a full stipend should not be employed elsewhere on campus.
During their first year of studies, graduate assistants and research assistants are restricted to a maximum load of 12 credit hours in formal course work per semester. Subsequently, the maximum load is 9 credit hours of course work per semester.
Graduate students supported by a Graduate assistantship should expect to spend at least 12 hours a week assisting in teaching courses. This usually takes the form of running laboratory sections, recitation sections, and/or grading.
Graduate students supported by Research Assistantships are paid from research grants obtained by individual faculty members. They are expected to work with the faculty member in performing the research as part of their training. Research Assistants are normally expected to be working on their research projects year-round. Vacation times need to be coordinated with the research director.
New graduate students admitted with support (either GA or RA) can be assured of support for two semesters. Support in the summer must normally come from a research assistantship in association with a faculty member. It is the student's responsibility to make such arrangements with a faculty member able to provide support. A small number of teaching Graduate Assistantships are also available in the summer.
The Qualifying Examination should be passed at the Ph.D. level by the end of the student's third semester in order for the student to receive continued financial support from the department.
A graduate student cannot receive more than eight years of financial support from the Graduate School or from funds allotted by the Graduate School to departments.
Compliance with Federal Aid Regulations
Recipients of federal financial aid must comply with the standards of progress set by their respective departments for their particular programs of study. The director of financial aid will notify students in writing when failure to maintain progress will result in the loss of financial aid. Appeals indicating mitigating circumstances must be made in writing to the director of financial aid.
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