This document summarizes funding resources for graduate students at UCSB, including internal and external fellowship opportunities. It provides an overview of the UCSB Source and Pivot databases for finding funding, lists some example education-focused extramural fellowships for early-stage and dissertation students, and outlines additional central awards and options for funding support through employment, departments, or financial aid. Resources for developing strong funding applications are also mentioned.

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Finding Graduate Student
Funding
Education Department October 2012

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Finding Funding Tools
 UCSB Source
 UCLA Grapes
 Pivot
 Keywords: Education (And subfields), Counseling/Guidance (under
Social Sciences), Psychology (clinical), Cultural or Population
Studies (adolescents, ethnic groups, minorities, etc.)
 UCSB Graduate Division
 GradPost(gradpost.ucsb.edu)
 Video Tutorials
 Department Specific Funding List links

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Sampling of Education Extramural
Fellowships: Early Years
 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship:
$30,000/3 years, STEM education/learning
 Fulbright: study abroad, ~1 year

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Sampling of Education Extramural
Fellowships: Dissertation Stage
 AAUW Dissertation Fellowships: women in final dissertation year, $20,000
 APA Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship: child
psychology, $25,000 award (4) and $5000 for runners-up (2)
 APA Esther Katz Rosen Fellowship: $25,000, work relevant to psychological understanding
of gifted children/youth
 Ford Dissertation Fellowship: $21,000, engagement with students from diverse
backgrounds and using diversity of human experience as resource
 UC/ACCORD Dissertation Fellowships: $20,000
 This year: 1) critical transitions in underrepresented students lives, conditions for enhancing college
opportunities for underrepresented students, making higher education more accessible
 National Academy of Education Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program: $25,000,
relevant to improvement of education (history/theory/practice formal/informal education)
 American Educational Research Association
 Minority Fellowship Program: minority graduate students working on dissertation, $12,000 stipend
and $1000 travel support for AERA conference, Nov
 Dissertation Grant: research making use of large-scale data set, up to $20,000

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Central Awards
 By Application
 Brython Davis: children of U.S. Navy or Marine Corps members (possibility
for multi year), $6667/quarter
 Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Fellowship: doctoral candidate,$3000 Fall
stipend
 James Kline: promote international understanding, $1500-$2500
 Humanities and Social Science Research Grant: doctoral candidates, up to
$2000
 For details of the awards, visit: http://graddiv.ucsb.edu/financial/cont.htm
 By Department Nomination
 Many full-year fellowships
 Discuss with department

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Other Options for Funding
 Student Employment (GradPost)
 TA-ships/reader (other departments too!)
 Financial Aid (nathan.cook@sa.ucsb.edu)

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Resources for Applications
 Funding proposal library
 Workshops (writing, specific fellowships, etc.)
 Peers and departments

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Questions?
 Contact me at fundingpeer@graddiv.ucsb.edu
 Stop by the Graduate Student Resource Center/Grad Post
headquarters