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Departments are required to award one of their centrally supported recruitment fellowships to a diverse student who meets the provided diversity criteria. Therefore, if a department elects to issue a Chancellor's Fellowship instead of a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, then their Regents ITD Fellowship must be awarded to a student who is (a) a Doctoral or M.F.A. applicant who is either a domestic student or a student who qualifies for an NRST exemption under AB 540, and (b) contributes to the diversity of the department or the university as outlined in the University of California’s Diversity Statement above.
As has been the case since the 2015-16 cohort, all international students admitted to doctoral programs will automatically be awarded the International Doctoral Recruitment Fellowship. The tuition support provided by the IDRF will automatically be incorporated into competition awards for qualifying students.
All domestic non-residents are expected to establish residency after their first year of study.
FAFSA Reminder : A portion of the funding for UCSB graduate awards comes from need-based money,
so it is required prefered that all domestic graduate students file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid
(FAFSA).
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All Regents ITD awards will be required to contain a minimum of five full years of support, the same as in prior years.
The Graduate Division considers a 'year of funding' to include at a minimum payment of in-state tuition and fees, NRST if applicable, UC Student Health Insurance, and either salary from employment or a student aid fellowship stipend of at least $32,500 for Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters.
Domestic non-residents are expected to establish residency after their first year of study and international students receive coverage of NRST after their first year through advancement via the International Doctoral Recruitment Fellowship (IDRF) provided they do so within department specific time-to-advancement standards.
All Regents ITD awards will either have (a) a Regents stipend in year one only, or (b) for departments selecting to move one of the stipend years from their Central Recruitment Fellowship to their Regents ITD, Regents stipends in years one and five.
Other aid composing the minimum five year offers will come from department resources, typically in the form of Academic Employment.
Regents ITD awards will be issued by departments via AppReview/EApp in the same manner as has been the case in prior years. Departments will again be required to admit students being offered one of these fellowships before the Regents ITD offer is made to the student.
Departments need to ensure that within a two year period, one of their centrally supported recruitment fellowships is awarded to a diverse student who meets the provided diversity criteria. This means that within the period of the 24-25 (last year) and 25-26 (this year) recruitment cycles one of your central awards needs to be or have been given to a diverse candidate. As a number of departments were successful in using their Regents allocation for the 2425 recruitment season, it leaves them with either a Chancellor’s or Cota Robles this season. As long as those departments were successful in recruiting one diversity candidate last season, they are not obligated to use their current year central award on a student that meets the diversity criteria. If departments were not successful last year in recruiting a diversity candidate, then their central award should be offered to someone that meets the diversity criteria this year.
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