The Faculty & Staff section of our website is intended to provide information, materials and guidance for faculty and academic unit staff responsible for graduate academic and student affairs. Administrative forms are available on the Forms Page. Be sure to read the Graduate Monthly Update for the latest news about UC Irvine's graduate community. If you'd like to contact a member of the Graduate Division team, please visit our Staff Directory. We're here to help you with your policy and administrative needs.

Graduate Monthly Update

The Graduate Monthly Update provides the latest news relevant to UCIrvine's graduate community, including academic policy updates, graduate funding opportunities, graduate education issues and other related events and initiatives.

Admissions

Information for faculty and staff policies, practices and procedures related to Graduate Admissions.

Academics

The Academics pages within our website provide information on policies governing graduate education, the role of the program Graduate Advisor, mentoring, as well as procedures for developing, proposing, and implementing new graduate programs.

• Policies: Academic Policy information for faculty and staff
• Graduate Advisor: The role of the faculty Graduate Advisor for your graduate program
• Mentoring: Mentoring is an essential component of graduate education. In general, good mentoring involves treating students respectfully and fairly, providing reliable academic and professional guidance, and serving as a role model for upholding the highest ethical standards. Mentors provide important support, guidance and advice to the mentee, and can be a critical link between graduate training and a successful academic or research career. The UCIrvine Graduate Division is committed to supporting our graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in establishing and maintaining mentor relationship
• Academic Program Development: The Academic Program Development section of our website provides information about the various types of graduate programs, types of funding models, policy relevant to developing new or modifying current programs, an introduction to our Graduate Academic Program Office, and information about the Graduate Growth Incentive Award (GgIA) program supporting development of new academic programs or initiatives to increase extramural support for graduate students. The mission of the Graduate Academic Programs Office is to support faculty in development and implementation of new graduate academic programs. This includes consultation on models for new academic programs; development of program proposals in preparation for review and approval by Graduate Council and CCGA; and implementation of new graduate programs.
• Commencement information for graduating doctoral and M.F.A. students.

Employment

Information for faculty and staff on policies, procedures, and practices to ensure that eligible students are appointed correctly for Employment and, in the case of TAs, in compliance with the ASE Contract.

Funding

Information about various types of graduate student Funding, including internal and extramural fellowships, diversity fellowships, employment (teaching and research assistantships), and Federal Work Study.

• Graduate Extramural Support Office
  The overall mission of the Graduate Extramural Support Office is to coordinate efforts to increase extramural funding support for graduate students. The office facilitates submission of training grants by serving as coordinating point to connect faculty and staff to the resources that are needed to develop competitive proposals. The office also provides support to graduate students who are seeking to submit competitive fellowship applications.
• The Graduate Growth Incentive Award (GgIA) program provides seed funding to faculty to assist in development of proposals for new extramural graduate funding, and for development of new graduate academic programs.
• Federal Work Study Program: The Federal Work Study Program is administered by the graduate to fund eligible graduate students appointed as GSRs or GSARs.

Diversity

The Graduate Division is committed to increasing the diversity of UCIrvine's graduate population. The following resources are available to faculty and staff to facilitate outreach, recruitment, and retention of diverse students.

• Our DECADE Program is funded by a FIPSE grant from the DoED to enhance graduate diversity
• Recruitment & Retention Resources for Faculty & Staff  
• Diversity Fellowships

Workshops

Through the Graduate Resouce Center (GRC), we offer a variety of workshops for the campus community, including writing support; work-life balance; funding opportunities; professional development; social networking; extramural funding; and identifying and helping students who are in distress.

Graduate Policies & Procedures

The Graduate Advisor's Handbook has been updated, modified, and replaced by Graduate Policies & Procedures.