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This year, departments will be given the choice of one of two templated award letters to use for their Regents award; The Standard template and the Alternate template. The Standard template will encompass the whole five year offer, which includes the Regents year(s) and the employment years. The department will retain the ability to move their year 5 stipend year from their Central Award to the Regents, should they choose, and the template will dynamically change to incorporate that change and accurately adjust the number of employment years to maintain a five year offer. The Alternatetemplate offers ONLY the Regents year(s) portion of the total package, and the department must offer a separate Department Recruitment Offer letter to speak to the remaining years needed to fulfil the five years of support requirement.
This year, departments can choose between two award letter templates for the Regents award: the Standard template and the Alternate template.
Standard template. This covers all five years of the offer which includes the Regents student aid fellowship support stipend year(s) and the employment years. The department retains the ability to move the Year 5 student aid fellowship support stipend year from their Central Award to the Regents award. The template will automatically update to reflect that change and keep the total offer at five years.
Alternate Template. This ONLY covers the Regents student aid fellowship support stipend year(s) of the total award package. The department must offer a separate Department Recruitment Offer letter to cover the remaining years needed to complete the required five years of support of the award.
**Please note, Regents in the Disciplines offer letters should be sent to students through the AppReview system and not through other means of communication. Offers that are not sent through AppReview cannot be tracked by the Graduate Division. Tracking records in AppReview is important because an automatic report is generated using this information which the Housing Office accesses directly to verify which on-time housing applications receive priority over the others. If your Department’s Regents offer does not go through the required AppReview system, the report automatically generated for housing will not accurately reflect your student’s name, which will result in the student not being included on the priority housing list for Central Fellows.
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