Appendix AA122: University Predoctoral Humanities and Regents Intern Fellowships
Updated: August 4th, 2011
BERKELEY: OFFICE OF DEAN OF THE GRADUATE DIVISION
December 17, 1999
To: Department Chairs
Humanities and Social Sciences
From: Joseph Cerny, Dean
Re: University Predoctoral Humanities and Regents Intern Fellowships
I am writing to announce revisions to two multi-year award programs, the University Predoctoral Humanities Fellowships and the Regents Intern Fellowships. As you know, these programs provide four years of support for entering domestic and international graduate students. Currently, these fellowships provide two years of stipend support with coverage of in-state fees and nonresident tuition (if necessary), and two years of departmental support with coverage of partial fees and nonresident tuition (if necessary). Nonresident tuition for domestic students is restricted to one year .
Unfortunately, because our funding has not increased, we find it necessary to restrict the Graduate Division’s nonresident tuition coverage from four years to two years for international students. As before. one year of nonresident tuition will be covered for domestic students. Therefore, effective with the 2000–2001 fellowship competition, these fellowships will be offered as follows:
University Predoctoral Humanities Fellowships:
• year 1: $12,500 stipend and full fees with nonresident tuition for domestic and international students
• year 2: $12,500 stipend and full fees, and nonresident tuition for international students only. (In previous years the second stipend year was held until the dissertation year; however, that has been changed to the second year of study.)
• year 3: departmental support in the form of a GSI or a GSR, with Graduate Division paying the remainder of the in-state fees after fee remission*
• year 4: departmental support in the form of a GSI or a GSR, with Graduate Division paying the remainder of the in-state fees after fee remission*
Regents Intern Fellowships:
• year 1: $11,000 stipend and full fees with nonresident tuition for domestic and international students
• year 2: $11,000 stipend and full fees, and nonresident tuition for international students only
• year 3: departmental support in the form of a GSI or a GSR, with Graduate Division paying the remainder of in-state fees after fee remission*
• year 4: departmental support in the form of a GSI or a GSR, with Graduate Division paying the remainder of in-state fees after fee remission*
For all students who have already received one of these awards, the Graduate Division will pay nonresident tuition as indicated in their award letters.
I regret having to announce these changes, however, they are necessary for the following reasons:
• The Graduate Division has not received any significant new funding during the last several years, while, at the same time nonresident tuition has increased.
• It is imperative that we use some of our current funding to increase the stipends of the Berkeley Graduate Fellowship and the Chancellor’s Opportunity Predoctoral Fellowship in order to remain competitive with our peer institutions. The Berkeley stipend will be raised from $13,000 to $15.000 and the Chancellor’s Opportunity stipend will go from $12,000 to $14,000 beginning with the 2000–2001 fellowship competition.
*NOTE: Recently there was some confusion concerning the Graduate Division’s policy on the payment of fees for these two programs in the departmental years of support. It has always been the intent to pay the remainder of in-state fees after fee remission has been paid during the years of departmental support. The program was never budgeted to cover full fees in the support years.
cc: Graduate Assistants
JC/JJD/DB
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