Graduate Opportunities Fellowship (GOF)
OVERVIEW
The campus-wide Graduate Opportunity Fellowship (GOF) program is a multi-year fellowship award comprised of one year of centrally funded fellowship support followed by two years of guaranteed departmental support (i.e., from TA/GSR/GSAR funding). This award is used to provide support for first year domestic graduate students pursing either the terminal Ph.D. or M.F.A. and to release recipients from employment or loan payment obligations that might delay progress in graduate study. It is designed to foster graduate study by facilitating the academic career development of students who have experienced educational disadvantage thus far in their schooling.
GENERAL ENTERING STUDENT DIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
- Nominees must be entering first-year graduate students only (must enroll Fall Quarter).
- Nominees must demonstrate high potential and promise.
- Nominees must indicate an interest in an academic career in teaching and research*.
- Nominees must be United States citizens or permanent residents of the United States of America.
- Nominees must provide evidence of a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA as undergraduates or masters students.
- Students must enroll in 12 units (full-time) during each quarter of fellowship tenure.
- Nominees must demonstrate experience of situations or conditions which were an impediment to advancing to graduate study, such as socioeconomic or educational limitations, the absence of a family member who attended college, matriculation in a school with poor financial or curricular support, having a physical or learning disability or working long hours while attending school.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS SPECIFIC TO THIS FELLOWSHIP
- All nominees must be doctoral students or M.F.A. students entering their first year of graduate study at UCI (all disciplines).
REQUIREMENTS
Fellows are prohibited from being employed during the first year of this award.
FUNDING PACKAGE
- The first year, the Graduate Division will award fellowship funding via a $18,000 stipend paid over a 9 or 12 month period (left up to the discretion of the department and/or student who must inform the Graduate Division by June 1st of the student’s preference for disbursement) plus payment of full student fees (Appendix D).
- Non-resident tuition is not provided.
- During the second and third years, the student’s department is obligated to provide funding of equivalent support levels.
- Fellowships may also be supplemented by department funding during year one.
HOW TO APPLY
- Students should check with the department to which they are applying for internal departmental deadlines.
- Students should notify the department to which they are applying of the submitted application so that the application may be reviewed for nomination consideration.
- Departments are responsible for submitting their top candidates to their school Dean for review.
- Academic schools are responsible for nominating their school’s top candidates in ranked order to the Office of Graduate Studies by the deadline established in the UCI Diversity Program Guide.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Raslyn Rendon
Director of Outreach, Recruitment, and Retention
Graduate Division
Tel.: (949) 824-9169
Fax: (949) 824-9096
E-Mail: rrendon@uci.edu
2009 GRADUATE OPPORTUNITY FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
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| Marcos Cantu |
Biological Sciences
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Jason Tolentino |
Engineering
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Patrick Flynn |
Information and Computer Science
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Jasmine Montgomery |
Social Ecology
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