The Graduate School is pleased to announce its call for the 2013-14 Graduate Diversity Recruitment Bonus Program. The purpose of the program is to advance inclusiveness in graduate education, to enrich the academic environment by embracing a broad range of perspectives, and to prepare students for their future roles as leaders in a diverse society.
To that end, the program is designed to augment recruitment-based assistantship and fellowship offers to incoming graduate students with meritorious records and demonstrated potential for graduate study by offering bonuses to students from divergent and/or nontraditional backgrounds.
Scholarship Award Level
Awards will provide eligible recipients with nonrenewable recruitment scholarships of $5,000 for their first academic year of graduate study.
Eligibility Criteria
Scholarship recipients will be evaluated by a faculty committee and determined by the graduate dean based on the following:
Part A
Nominees must meet all of the following criteria:
- U.S. citizen or permanent resident;
- meritorious academic achievement and leadership potential as reflected in grade point average, GRE or other test scores, publications, presentations, awards/honors, and/or other professional activity;
- status as a first-time OSU graduate degree-seeking student in any graduate field for the approaching academic year (OSU baccalaureate recipients may be eligible);
- documented offer of departmental or program support equivalent to a 0.49 FTE graduate assistantship or fellowship at the Graduate School's prevailing recommended minimum stipend level for the award period.
Part B
In addition to Part A, nominees must meet at least two of the following diversity enhancement-based criteria:
- previously participated in a TRIO Program (Educational Opportunity Center, Talent Search, Student Support Services, Upward Bound, McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program);
- previously participated in a College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP);
- previously attended a minority-serving institution;
- primary language is other than English;
- documented financial need (based upon FAFSA application process for the proposed award period) with consideration of low income status;
- first generation to attend a university;
- previously participated in a summer research opportunity program for underserved undergraduates;
- demonstrated engagement with communities that are underrepresented in higher education and an ability to bring this experience to the learning environment;
- interest in using the diversity of human experience as an educational resource in teaching and scholarship.
Nomination Form
Nominations are not being accepted at this time.
