January 25, 2013
The deadline for nominating incoming and current students for COLA Fellowships is February 1, 2013. Please contact Lauren Apter Bairnsfather with any questions.
Guiding Principles:
Set Fellowships Packages from OGS funds:
We have worked with the Graduate School to establish set award packages for the College of Liberal Arts, including amounts for stipend, tuition, and insurance. Following the consensus that emerged during CLASP conversations, stipends are set at $10,000 per semester and $5,000 in the summer. The predefined packages, to be used either for recruitment or for supporting continuing students, are:
| Fall Stipend | Spring Stipend |
Summer Stipend |
Tuition |
Insurance |
Total |
|
Prestigious |
$10,000 | $10,000 |
$5,000 |
$9,603 |
$1,204 |
$35,807 |
Regular |
$10,000 | $10,000 |
n/a |
$8,088 |
$1,204 |
$29,292 |
Fall |
$10,000 | n/a |
n/a |
$4,044 |
$472 |
$14,516 |
Spring |
n/a | $10,000 |
n/a |
$4,044 |
$452 |
$14,496 |
Summer |
n/a | n/a |
$5,000 |
n/a |
n/a |
$5,000 |
Flexibility with COLA Funds: COLA Funds are flexible. As in the past year, individual departments will have the authority to decide whether to use the money for recruitment or for supporting continuing students. Departments may choose to use the COLA funds for top-offs, but this use should be strategic and limited to select students.
College-Wide Fellowships: The College will again run college-wide competitions for thematic recruitment fellowships and college graduate fellowships. Announcements were sent out in early January, and the deadline for nominations is February 1, 2013. The College will also continue the support of editorial assistantships. The deadline is February 8, 2013. Awardees will be selected by College committee. The awards are made to individuals and are not transferable to other students in the department—they will be offered to students down the Committees' lists as necessary.
OGS-Administered Fellowships: OGS will continue to administer Harrington/Powers fellowships; McNair, South Texas and West Texas fellowships; Graduate School Named Endowment Continuing Fellowships; and Prestigious External Fellowship Supplements. OGS will also offer Diversity Mentoring awards to faculty to support graduate students.
Enrollment Requirement: Both OGS and COLA expect fellowship recipients to maintain full-time enrollment irrespective of the funding source (OGS, COLA, departmental endowment, external fellowships, etc.) The same applies to recipients of out of state tuition waivers.
March 26, 2012
February 6, 2012
The awarding of graduate student fellowships has been decentralized. The Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) will continue to administer some endowed and diversity fellowships. Committees inside the College of Liberal Arts will decide on the recipients of diversity recruitment fellowships and editorial assistantships through a competitive process. The remainder of fellowships for the College of Liberal Arts will be distributed by CoLA departments, through a process that each department will design internally. The following tables contain more specific information about these three broad categories of fellowships.
Department chairs received an email with their allocations in late December and more information in an Academic Affairs meeting on February 6. Please contact Lauren Apter Bairnsfather with any questions.
| Fellowship Type | Deadline | OGS Links |
| Harrington and Powers Fellows | February 1, 2012 | Harrington |
Diversity - McNair, West Texas, South Texas |
February 20, 2012 | Diversity |
| Continuing Named Fellowships* |
March 1, 2012 | Continuing Named Fellowships |
*Includes Harrington Dissertation awards.
| Fellowship Type | Deadline | Comments and Documents |
| Thematic Graduate Recruitment Fellowships (Diversity) |
February 22, 2012 |
Departments nominate individual students*; Announcement expected by March 9. Application Information |
| COLA Graduate Fellowships |
February 22, 2012 | Departments nominate individual students*; Announcement expected by March 9. Application Information |
| Editorial Assistantships* |
Completed | Competitive for faculty; awards will be announced by February 10. |
*Awardees will be selected by College committee. The awards are made to individuals and are not transferable to other students in the department—they will be offered to students down the Committees' lists as necessary.
*This process will be determined entirely by the departments with no involvement from CoLA or OGS. Departments will report awardees to both COLA and OGS.
| Fellowship Type | Deadline |
| New-student Recruitment |
To be determined by department |
| Continuing-student Support |
To be determined by department |
| Travel |
To be determined by department |
