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Graduate Assistantships. Teaching, research, and service assistantships are available for a limited number of well-qualified graduate students. Graduate assistantship application forms are available from the Graduate School. Applicants for graduate study who wish to be considered for such assistantships should complete an application form and submit it to the Graduate School. In addition, the applicant may want to address a letter of application to the head of the intended major department or attach a letter to the application form. Consideration for possible appointment to an assistantship can then be given after a decision has been made concerning admission to graduate study.

Stipends are based on a twenty hour per week work assignment. In addition, the out-of-state portion of tuition may be waived for some, but not all, of these assistantships. Students receiving assistantships will be expected to be registered as full-time students. Continuation of the appointment depends upon satisfactory performance of duties and upon satisfactory academic achievement (3.0 GPA on all graduate course work attempted). In order to have a graduate assistantship, students must be admitted into a graduate program and must provide their Social Security card.

A limited number of Chancellor's Fellowships are available to well-qualified graduate students. The awards, based on merit, are intended to encourage and assist superior students in pursuing graduate studies in the minimum time possible. This fellowship carries no work requirement. Students are required to be registered for a minimum of nine semester hours each semester. Forms are available from the Graduate School.

Each semester the Graduate School awards a number of Graduate School study grants. These small grants are designed to support well-qualified graduate students. Students must register for a minimum of three semester hours. There is no work requirement and the awards are made on the basis of merit as reflected by the student's application file.

Application deadline is May 15 for fall semester and November 15 for spring semester. More information and forms are available from the Graduate School.