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Faculty & Staff Resources - Diversity Fellowship Programs

The University of California, Irvine is committed to the recruitment, admission, and retention of a high quality and diverse graduate student population. Consequently, we offer a number of fellowship awards for both entering and continuing diversity students.

Financial support packages will be awarded to a diverse group of students based on their academic achievements and their diversity contribution to the graduate population in the nominating department. Successful efforts at overcoming socioeconomic or other educational disadvantages are viewed, in combination with other factors, as indicators of current and future performance.

It is the task of each academic department to identify those students whose background and experiences will enhance the level of diversity within the department discipline by using information provided by the applicant on their Online Application for Graduate Admission. Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent U.S. residents to qualify for UCI diversity fellowships.

Eugene Cota-Robles and Graduate Opportunity Fellowships (ECR & GOF)
NOMINATION PROCESS: (last updated January 20, 2009)

  1. Departments to complete the new ECR and GOF nomination forms for each nominee
    1. New forms are fillable/savable Word documents and can be found on the Graduate Division Web site: ECR Nomination Form GOF Nomination Form
    2. Click here for some instructions on using Word-based data entry forms
  2. Save nomination forms in Word as "Award name - SID#.doc": e.g.
    1. "ECR - 12345678.doc"
  3. Print the nomination forms and gather original signatures for each form
  4. Scan documents to a single PDF file for each nominee once forms are final with signatures, in this order:
    1. Nomination form
    2. Student's original transcripts
    3. Statement of Purpose and/or Personal History Statement - RELEVANT ONLY FOR THOSE WHO SUBMITTED THEIR STATEMENT(S) SEPARATE FROM THE ONLINE APPLICATION
  5. Save the new PDF file as before, "Award name - SID#.pdf": e.g.
    1. "ECR - 12345678.pdf"
  6. Associate Deans to submit a signed cover letter rank ordering the nominees from the school
  7. Prepare to send as follows when all documentation is complete::
    1. Email to DiversityFellowships@rgs.uci.edu:
    1. Cover Letter from Associate Dean
    2. Each original Word.doc nomination form
    3. Each PDF packet (packet to include items listed above)
  8. DEADLINE to submit nominations for the Graduate Division: Friday February 13, 2009
    1. Incomplete nominations packets will not be reviewed
    2. No exceptions to this deadline will be considered

Faculty Mentor Program and President's Dissertation Year Fellowships (FMP & PDY)
NOMINATION PROCESS: (last updated April 8, 2009)

Diversity Fellowship Funding/Nomination Deadlines
2009-2010 Academic Year

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