President's Diversity Recruitment Fellowship

• Stipend and Benefits:
  • 5 year award designed to guarantee the student receives full stipend,tuition and health insurance throughout the time they are working towards the PhD degree
    
    • 2 years of pure graduate fellowship from UGS with health insurance and a stipend between $22,000 and $25,000. Tuition funded by nominating department/school.
    • For the remaining 3 years, funding is the responsibility of the department and should include a full stipend, tuition, and health insurance
  • Opportunity to participate in mentoring workshops in the Graduate Mentoring Center and the Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals Program
  • Possibility for expenses to be paid to attend the Institute for Teaching and Mentoring, up to 3 years
  • Possibility for expenses to be paid to participate in one of the semester-long activities sponsored by the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
• Additional Eligibility Criteria for President's Diversity Fellowship:
  
  • Must belong to one or more of the following classes:
    • Must be an underrepresented minority, URM, in their particular discipline. The term URM includes: DOMESTIC African Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, or Pacific Islanders/Native Hawaiians
    •  Person with disabilities. Under ADA, an individual is considered to have a disability if he or she has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of his or her major life activities,
      has a record of such impairment and can provide documentation. For more information about documentation criteria visit the Division of Student Affairs Disability Services website "Document a Disability
    • A gender minority (<30% of the current graduate population in the department)
    • A first generation college student (a student whose legal custodian(s) did not complete a four- year degree)

Graduate Scholars Fellowship

• Stipend and Benefits:
  • Multi- year award designed to guarantee the student receives full stipend,tuition and health insurance throughout the time they are working towards the PhD degree
    
    • 1 year of pure graduate fellowship from UGS with health insurance and a stipend between $22,000 and $25,000. Tuition funded by nominating department/school.
    • For the remaining 3 years, funding is the responsibility of the department and should include a full stipend, tuition, and health insurance
• Additional Eligibility Criteria for Graduate Scholars Fellowship:
  
  • Must belong to one or more of the following classes:
    • Must be an underrepresented minority, URM, in their particular discipline. The term URM includes: DOMESTIC African Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, or Pacific Islanders/Native Hawaiians
    •  Person with disabilities. Under ADA, an individual is considered to have a disability if he or she has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of his or her major life activities,
      has a record of such impairment and can provide documentation. For more information about documentation criteria visit the Division of Student Affairs Disability Services website "Document a Disability
    • A gender minority (<30% of the current graduate population in the department)
    • A first generation college student (a student whose legal custodian(s) did not complete a four- year degree)

Ronald E McNair Postbaccalaureate Scholars Program

• Stipend and Benefits:
  • Multi- year award designed to guarantee the student receives full stipend,tuition and health insurance throughout the time they are working towards the PhD degree
    
    • 1 year of pure graduate fellowship from UGS with health insurance and a stipend between $22,000 and $25,000. Tuition funded by nominating department/school.
    • For the remaining 3 years, funding is the responsibility of the department and should include a full stipend, tuition, and health insurance
• Additional Eligibility Criteria for McNair Scholars Graduate Fellowship:
  • Nominees must have participated in the Ronald E McNair Postbaccalaureate Scholars Program during their undergraduate career
    • Nominee must provide documentation of their undergraduate status as a McNair Scholar
    • Applicants to an M.F.A. program are eligible for this fellowship in addition to those entering a doctoral program

Adam W. Herbert PhD and Master's Degree Fellowship

• Stipend and Benefits:
  • A 4-year award designed to guarantee the student receives full stipend, tuition and health insurance throughout the time they are working towards the PhD degree
    
    • 4 years of pure graduate fellowship from UGS with health insurance and a stipend of $25,000
    • Tuition funded by nominating department/school
  • Opportunity to participate in mentoring workshops in the Graduate Mentoring Center and the Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals Program
  • Possibility for expenses to be paid to attend the Institute for Teaching and Mentoring, up to 3 years
  • Possibility for expenses to be paid to participate in one of the semester-long activities sponsored by the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
• Additional Eligibility Criteria for Adam W Herbert PhD and Master's Degree Fellowships:
  • Nominees must be:
    • graduates of a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) (link to list of 105 HBCUs)
    • new students proposing to enter a Ph.D. or master’s degree program in a science, technology, or mathematics (STEM) discipline 

Provide the following department/program information: 

1. Department/program and school/college name
2. Department funding agreement (if outside the College)
3. Primary and secondary contact name and email
4. Additional contact name and email, if preferred
5. Provide a brief funding statement (1-2 paragraphs) describing how the department plans to fund students in the years in which they are not receiving fellowship funds. This should include anticipated stipend amounts for SAAs, any available funding for further fellowship years, possible funding from the school/college, potential travel funds, and/or available funding through training or research grants. Please keep in mind that whatever funding the department provides must cover health insurance and a fee remission. When considering funding students in future years, 3-year packages should be developed for incoming M.F.A. students, 4-year packages, for PhD-seeking students entering with a master's degree, and 5 year packages for Ph.D.-seeking students entering with a bachelor's degree. Please visit the recruiting awards website for typical funding templates for these awards. You may submit one funding outline for all nominations.
6. Provide a brief department diversity statement, describing the department's current diversity and any initiatives to increase recruitment and retention of a more diverse graduate student population. Each statement should be tailored to the particular fellowship the nomination is for. For example, what efforts has the department made to identify and recruit members of underrepresented groups. What mentoring activities, professional-skills training, and career-development opportunities will be available to the student in your department?

For each fellowship on the nomination form, please provide the following information: 

1. Rank your department's nominations with #1 being the strongest candidate for the award for which each student is eligible. Please list the candidates in alphabetical order. Provide the applicant's name and university ID (UID) number.
2. Upload a complete copy of the student's application for admission to Indiana University as a single PDF in this order:
   1. Application form
   2. Statement of purpose
   3. Recommendation letters
   4. Transcripts
   5. McNair Scholars Certification (if applicable)
3. Upload a brief supporting statement (no more than 2 paragraphs) explaining: a) why this candidate is outstanding; b) how well matched the candidate's interests are to the strenghts of the department; c) how the department recruited the student (how much contact and by which faculty; d) the likelihood the candidate will choose IU over competing offers.