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In 2024-25 all departments were given one Regents stipend allocation to utilize in recruitment over a two year span. For those departments who did not utilize their Regents allocation in 24-25, or had their offer declined prior to the start of the 24-25 academic year, they will be able have the ability to make an offer offers in the 25-26 recruitment season. Centrally funded Regents in the Disciplines stipend years include coverage of in-state tuition and fees, UC Student Health Insurance, a $32,500 stipend during the academic year, and a $5,000 trailing Summer stipend. this fellowship does not include NRST, so Departments must pay NRST for non-resident students in their first year from block-grant or other discretionary funds.
We have examined the way departments are constructing offers utilizing this program, and in a majority of the cases there was a standard offer pairing the central stipend(s) with department employment resources. To save departments both time and effort, we have created an automatically generated award letter, with a few inputs by the department, which will allow this standard offer to be produced in the AppReview System. If departments wish to continue to customize their offer letters, opting out of this full standard letter, we have created a base award letter generation, offering only the Regents year(s), allowing departments to separately craft a Department Recruitment Offer letter to pair with the Regents only central letter.
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.
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