Various sources of financial aid are available to graduate students at
IUPUI. For information, contact the Office of Scholarships and Financial
Aid, 103 Cavanaugh Hall (274-4162).
In
addition to this campus-wide financial aid, the Department of English
offers a limited, but growing, number of associate faculty positions,
research assistantships, and fellowships. Research assistantships awarded
by the English Department require an application; details will be
announced at the time of selection (usually the spring before the
assistantship year).
At
present, most departmental support is in the form of associate (part-time)
faculty positions, teaching one or two sections of lower-level writing and
literature courses each semester. Such positions are assigned by the
committees that coordinate these courses, in consultation with the
Graduate Studies Committee. Graduate students who receive associate
faculty appointments are paid the same stipends as other associate faculty
members and are required to participate in the same orientation and
training programs. In addition, they may be required to complete certain
graduate courses before or during their appointments.
IUPUI
sponsors Grants-in-aid of Research for students working on their theses.
These grants are intended to cover expenses incurred in the research
required for the theses, including travel to libraries and archives
holding materials not otherwise available. Applicants must prepare a
proposal that describes the thesis topic and research methods and
justifies the expenses. Supporting statements from the thesis director and
one other person who is knowledgeable about the proposed topic are also
required.
Attention International Students: If you are in need of financial
assistance, please review all of your options. Financial assistance from
here would have to come either from a University fellowship or from a
department research assistantship. For the University fellowship, the
application deadline is December 1 of the preceding year; because all
incoming graduate students, no matter what their school or program, are
eligible to compete, the competition is fierce. Each department has money
for assistantships based on the size of its program. Our program is small,
and thus we have only enough money for one or two research assistantships
per year. The competition for them is also intense.
