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The King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship Program is funded by the State of Michigan's KCP Initiative and is intended to increase the pool of traditionally underrepresented candidates pursuing faculty teaching careers in postsecondary education. Preference may not be given to applicants on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin. Applications are encouraged from people with disabilities, and individuals from cultural, linguistic, geographic, and socio-economic backgrounds who would otherwise not adequately be represented in the graduate student and faculty populations.
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Submit electronically to Laura Thomas lshirley@umich.edu
This fund provides support to doctoral students who meet one or more of the following criteria and who demonstrate unmet financial need due to a life crisis or some other foreseeable circumstance. Students may receive support from this fund in the amount of $1,500 per year per student. One student per year may receive support.
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The University of Michigan School of Social Work's Gerontology Learning Community has a limited fund to support MSW and PhD students to pursue learning opportunities that will expand their knowledge of aging or strengthen their competence to work with the older population. Three types of activities are eligible for support:
Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis. If approved, each student will receive a maximum of $500 when they are in the school to deflate the cost associated with pursuing the learning activity. Only actual expenses are reimbursed so receipts are required. Criteria for approval are: (a) the activity must be related to aging issues, (b) the activity will strengthen student's knowledge or competence in working with older adults, and (c) the activity involvesexpenses that are ‘extra' to what is expected for the student.
Submit electronically to Laura Thomas lshirley@umich.edu
The John & Penny Tropman Conference Networking Travel Grant carries a value of $500. This travel grant is to support a doctoral student who would like to attend a conference for networking purposes who is not presenting at the conference. To be eligible for the award, a student must be in good standing in the Joint Doctoral Program.
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The Rackham Conference Travel Grant is intended to provide opportunities for Rackham graduate students to become familiar with, and participate in the life of, their academic professions. As part of its University-wide commitment to advancing international research and training, the International Institute provides funding for 30 awards to international destinations. The remainder of the funding comes from Rackham. You must submit your applications before the first day of the conference for travel through the end of the final term of registration. The conference may occur anytime up through your final semester of registration. Applications will not be considered for retroactive funding.
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The Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant is designed to support Rackham graduate students who need assistance to carry out research that advances their progress toward their degree.
The grant is intended to defray costs of conducting clearly defined research projects including:
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Department deadline: September 8, 2017
Submit electronically to Todd Huynh thuynh@umich.edu
The Rackham International Student Fellowship assists outstanding international students, particularly those who may be ineligible for other kinds of support because of citizenship. In addition the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship assists outstanding students in Rackham programs who have earned a previous degree from a university in Taiwan. These fellowships will be awarded in a combined competition.
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Department deadline: September 22, 2017
Submit electronically to Todd Huynh thuynh@umich.edu
The Henry J. Meyer scholarship award was established in 1987 to honor the original and long-time director of the Doctoral Program, Henry J. Meyer, under whose leadership the program was the first doctoral program in social work to integrate fully the intensive study of social work and a social science discipline. The major purposes of this award are (a) to help support and honor students in the Doctoral Program in Social Work and Social Science whose written work exemplifies the goals of the Program in relation to the integration of social work and social science, and (b) to encourage students to prepare such work for possible publication or conference presentation.
Normally this award will be made annually. Papers submitted by students will be judged by the Supervising Committee on the extent to which they make an original contribution to the empirical or theoretical literature in a manner that integrates social work and social science.
Department deadline: September 25, 2017
Submit electronically to Laura Thomas lshirley@umich.edu
This Scholarship was established by James L. and Vivian A. Curtis. It supports doctoral students whose research focuses on minority populations with low income and education, with a preference for research on issues faced by African American males.
Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Endowed Scholarship for Doctoral Student Research Application »