ELIGIBILITY
Full-time, incoming graduate students in a master's or doctoral degree program.
The students must be accepted to one of the following programs:
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LENGTH AND AMOUNT
Each year one or more fellowships will be awarded consisting of stipends of
$15,000 and 20 hours of tuition, renewable if the recipients
maintain a 3.0 GPA and remain full-time students in good standing. Master's
candidates may hold the fellowship for up to two years; doctoral candidates for
five years.
PROCESS
Students must be nominated (this is not the same as being recommended) by their
academic program director. The director of each program will be allowed to
nominate one candidate, who must be an incoming student, from his/her program
for competition each spring.
The
program director must submit a letter of nomination, copies of the nominee's graduate application, undergraduate and graduate
(if applicable) transcripts, GRE or other graduate admission test scores, and a
1,000 word essay by the nominee relating (in detail) his or her background,
career objectives, and program of study to the study of public policy. The
essay can be the student's statement of purpose from his/her graduate
application package provided it meets the above-mentioned requirements.
DEADLINE
All applications with letters of nomination must be submitted to the Office of
Graduate Student Assistantships and Fellowships by the deadline TBA for 2007 .
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