College of Arts and Letters Grants and Fellowships
CAL Merit Fellowships and
Graduate School PhD/MFA Completion Fellowships
These fellowships provide a stipend of $6,000 -- plus contributions to registration fees, tuition, and health insurance -- to support the student for one semester in academic year 2010-11 (F10, S11, US11).
The College has funding for 2-3 Merit Fellowships and 16-18 Dissertation Completion Fellowships.
College Application Deadline (individual program deadlines are earlier):
Monday, March 15, 2010.
Merit/Completion Fellowships General Information
Summer College Research Abroad Monies (SCRAM)
The College of Arts and Letters is offering fellowships up to $3,000 each intended for students in the latter stages of degree completion whose research requires significant use of facilities, sources, or resources abroad.
Support is for travel during Summer 2010. Preference will be given to applications demonstrating that the research trip will accelerate degree completion and significantly add to the quality of the applicant's composition, performance, creative activity, thesis, dissertation or document.
Contact your unit for nomination procedures. Nominations must reach the College Office by Friday, March 5, 2010.
SCRAM Nomination Guidelines
SCRAM Nomination Form
Support for Conference and Research Travel
The College of Arts and Letters provides up to $300 per graduate student per year toward expenses of travel to conferences. For College travel guidelines, read more here.
The Graduate School provides up to $400 per student per degree; read more here.
The Office of International Studies and Programs provides some support for international travel for conferences and research; read more here.
Varg-Sullivan Awards
The College of Arts and Letters offers two Varg-Sullivan Awards: one for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts and one for Outstanding Achievement in the Letters. Paul Varg and Richard Sullivan are former deans in the College of Arts and Letters who dedicated their professional lives to excellence in the College. This award endowment has been established in their name. Graduate students in the College of Arts and Letters are eligible to be nominated for the award by their major unit. Recipients are selected based on best performance/exhibition at a national or international event in the Arts and best presentation at a national or international event or best published article in the Letters. Nomination deadline: Friday, March 5, 2010.
Varg-Sullivan Nomination Information and Form
Department and Program Grants
Individual departments and graduate programs allocate small fellowships/ grants to their students to support their research and professional development. Graduate students may ask their advisors and/or the directors of their programs about relevant qualifications and procedures.
Each Graduate Program has a Handbook that comprehensively describes all program requirements, resources, policies and procedures, common practices. The handbooks can be accessed from the department or program website.