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Financial Assistance
Financial assistance is available through both scholarships and assistantships. For the past several years, most graduate students in the Department have received assistantships. Tuition is waived for students holding assistantships.
Assistantships
Some assistantships and fellowships are awarded by the Graduate School and are granted on a University-wide competitive basis. Information pertaining to these can be obtained here or by writing to:
Graduate School
320 E. Clayton Street, Suite 400
The University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602
Departmental Assistantships:
Assistantships are available through the department on a competitive basis. Assistantships can be offered for 1/3 time (which comes with a 13 hour per week work obligation to the department), 40% time (which comes with a 16 hour per week work obligation to the department), or 1/2 time (which comes with a 20 hour per week work obligation to the department).
Teaching assistantships involve assisting a faculty member with his or her class(es) through activities such as preparation of lecture materials and exams, managing class rolls and grades, meeting with students, and/or teaching lab sections of large classes. Occassionally, experienced graduate students may be offered an assistantship to serve as primary instructor of a class or classes.
Research assistantships are usually funded by research projects and involve working with a particular faculty member on his or her research. Tasks may include assisting with literature reviews, data collection, coding, and analysis, writing manuscripts, and/or preparing presentations.
In most cases, assistantship pay is for 10 months, Aug-May. All assistantships at .33 time or above come with a tuition waiver. This waiver is also awarded in the summer, even if the assistantship is only for 10 months. Students are responsible for covering some fees each semester.
At the master's level the stipend for 2011-12 is:
$10, 664 for .33 or 1/3 time (The majority of assistantships awarded at the master's level are .33 time.)
$12, 785 for .40 time
$15, 892 for .50 or 1/2 time
At the doctoral level the stipend for 2011-12 is:
$11, 664 for .33 or 1/3 time
$13, 818 for .40 time (The majority of assistantships awarded at the doctoral level are .40 time.)
$17, 273 for .50 or 1/2 time
In some instances, 12-month assistantships are avialable and the above amounts are adjusted up accordingly. Income from assistantships is subject to state and federal income taxes.
Applications for departmental assistantships should be sent no later than December 1 to:
Diane Adams, Graduate Program Assistant
CFDgrad.info@fcs.uga.edu
123 Dawson Hall
Department of Human Development and Family Science
Athens, GA 30602-2622
Telephone (706) 542-4844
Because of the demand for assistantship support and the expectation that students finish their degree programs in a timely fashion, students at the Master's level who are awarded assistantships will ordinarily be supported on a .33 assistantship for maximum of two years. Doctoral students will ordinarily be supported on a .40 assistantship for three years and sometimes a fourth year of funding is possible. *Note: These conditions are met as long as funds are available, the student makes satisfactory progress in the program, and performace of assistantship duties receives a positive evaluation.
Criteria and Procedures for Awarding Departmental Graduate Assistantships: The Department Head, upon the advice and recommendations of the Graduate Coordinator and other members of the faculty, awards assistantships to students. Assistantship awards are based on a combination of individual faculty requests for research or teaching assistance and the collective faculty's judgment as to the professional promise demonstrated by students through their previous professional activities, particularly those of the previous academic year. A limited number of assistantships are set aside for first year students.
Scholarships
A limited number of scholarships are available from the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Specifically, depending on funds and competitive requests from other departments in the College, the Department of Child and Family Development has Kilgore Scholarships, in the amount of $2,000, that can be awarded to incoming graduate students. No preference is given to whether the applicant is a master's or doctoral candidate, but to be eligible, students must meet the minimum qualifications for admission, and have a GRE score of at least 1100 (verbal and math combined) and/or a grade point average for any previous degree work no less than 3.5. Upon successful completion of the first year of study, Kilgore Scholarship recipients, upon application for renewal, may expect one additional year of support in the amount of $1,000. If a master's student receives a Kilgore Scholarship, application may be made again as a doctoral student. The scholarship can be renewed for one year in both degree programs creating the potential for four years of support.
In addition, there are scholarships in the amount of $500 that are available on a competitive basis to either incoming or current graduate students (the Koelsche Scholarships and the Franklin Scholarships). All scholarship applications must be received prior to April 1, and awards are made during the spring term. For further scholarship information and application forms, please write to:
Diane Adams, Graduate Program Assistant
CFDgrad.info@fcs.uga.edu
123 Dawson Hall
Department of Human Development and Family Science
Athens, GA 30602-2622
Telephone (706) 542-4844
Additional information about these scholarships can be found at: http://www.fcs.uga.edu/ss/scholarships_grad.html
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