Departmental Financial Aid
Departmental Financial Aid Application for 2010-2011
(Deadline for Financial Aid Application is December 15 , 2009)
EPS Teaching and Program Assistantships
Program Assistantships and Teaching Assistantships constitute the typical form of Departmental assistance. Assistantships of one-third time or more permit holders tuition remission and carry health benefits. Program Assistants are ordinarily appointed at one-third time for the academic year and work under the direction of a faculty supervisor. Program Assistants are selected from financial aid applications on the basis of the Admissions and Financial Aid Committee rankings and faculty vote. Financial assistance is awarded on the basis of meritorious academic performance and promise as a scholar and educator. Program/teaching assistantships for pre-dissertators are awarded on the assumption that the student will take at least 6 credits during the semester in which an assistantship is awarded. Exceptions may be made by vote of the Executive Committee.
When a Teaching Assistantship becomes available, the professor in charge of the relevant course will publicize the criteria for selection. Applications should be made directly to the professor. Appointments of T.A.s need confirmation by the Departmental Executive Committee.
Program and Teaching Assistantships are given brief
evaluations by their supervising professors, which become part of their
departmental folders and may be considered in later awards of such positions.
EPS graduate students are not eligible for more than 50 percent of “full
time equivalent” support from any combination of the following sources
in any given fall, spring or summer term: university-wide fellowships
(excluding the Vilas, Travel grants and other comparable small grants),
EPS program assistantships, EPS teaching assistantships, EPS lectureships,
and research assistantships administered by the Department.
When a student is offered more than one of the above awards, the combined amount of which would exceed 50 percent of FTE, the student must choose between these awards in order to comply with the 50 percent rule. When EPS faculty have funds for research assistantships that are not administered by the Department, they are urged to follow this policy. Exceptions to this policy will be made only in unusual circumstances.
Because funds available to the Department for support of students are limited, no graduate student shall, with the exception specified below, receive more than six semesters of financial aid from the Department. Financial aid is defined to include program assistantships and teaching assistantships. In rare circumstances, warranted by Departmental needs, a student may be appointed as a Program/Teaching Assistant despite have received 6 semesters of prior support. Lectureships and program assistantships on individual professor’s research grants are not included in this limitation.
Departmental Awards
