SUPPORT & BENEFITS FOR FELLOWS

Funds are available to support a total of 30 students over the project’s 5 year period. Students supported by the project will hold the title of Research Assistant. The training stipend for 2009-10 is approximately $25,000, with full tuition remission and benefits.

Advanced awards will provide 2 years of dissertator funding for discipline-based students who have developed substantive expertise in education and are pursuing dissertations that address applied questions on education with serious attention to causal inference.

Entry awards will provide up to 5 years of support for students beginning their 1st or 2nd years as graduate students, with the expectation that they will be funded an average of 3 years by the training grant and 2 years by other sources, including departmental funding through assistantships, teaching, and other fellowships.

In addition, funding is available each year to support specific research student projects or needs and to help with the costs associated with the third-year field internship. An internal application process will be used to determine how those funds will be allocated each year.