F3. Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship (DNTF)
Updated: January 3rd, 2012
During the Spring 2001, the Graduate Division created the Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship (DNTF), an incentive program intended to assist students to complete their degrees within the normative time of their majors. A list of departments and graduate groups that participate in the program and fellowship amounts can be found on the DNTF webpage.
The DNTF program applies for all cohorts in participating doctoral programs through entry in Spring 2010. Students entering a doctoral program in designated majors from Fall 2010 forward may participate in the new normative time incentive program, the Doctoral Completion Fellowship (DCF), which is detailed in the next section.
The Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship (DNTF) is distributed as follows:
- Students who are advanced for candidacy within the normative times established for advancement within their majors receive a two-semester stipend, plus fees.
- Students who were admitted to graduate study before the 2008–2009 academic year and who are advanced within the following year of their normative time, receive a one-semester stipend, plus fees.
- Students may use the DNTF after advancement to candidacy and before the expiration of normative times for completion of the doctorate in their disciplines. Use of the Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship (DNTF) may be supplemented by a single one-semester GSI, AI-GS, GSR, Reader, or Tutor appointment for no greater than 25 percent time. For students who are eligible for two semesters of DNTF, the 25 percent time appointment may only be taken in one of the two semesters. Continuation of the DNTF program is contingent upon available funding.
DNTF Calculation Exceptions. A withdrawal for research or other academic purposes will count in accrued time as will semesters included in retroactive withdrawals (unless for medical purposes and approved by University Health Services – Tang Center). Only the following two categories (medical withdrawal and parental accommodation) will not count in DNTF calculations.
Medical withdrawal. A maximum of two semesters of withdrawal for medical purposes, documented by a formal withdrawal, departmental cancellation, or retroactive withdrawal petition, will not count in calculating a student’s eligibility.
Parental Accommodation. As stated in the Graduate Council’s 2007 statement on doctoral student parent accommodation, “A student eligible for the Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship (DNTF) who has been granted a time extension for parental accommodation is entitled to a credit in the normative time calculation. Credit for up to two semesters of parental leave before advancement to candidacy will be granted provided that either 1) the student formally withdraws for that purpose, or 2) the student intends to register to undertake a modified schedule and applies for parental leave status before or at the start of the proposed semester of leave. The Head Graduate Adviser of the student choosing the second option should send a memorandum with this request to the Graduate Services: Degrees Office (318 Sproul Hall, #5900). Retroactive requests will not be considered.”
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