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All graduate
students are eligible to receive a total of $400 dollars in GSO funding
each semester that they are enrolled at the university. The following
restrictions apply to how these funds may be used: |
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$400
(the maximum amount allocated) may be used to subsidize
travel to a conference (or
conferences) at which the applicant has been asked to present
a paper or to perform another academic duty. |
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$160
of the total amount allocated may be used to purchase research
supplies. |
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Doctoral
students may apply for a one time grant of $50 for dissertation
supplies. |
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Masters
students may apply for a one time grant of $25 for
thesis supplies. |
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$100
of the total amount allocated may be used to subsidize travel
to a
conference without academic duties. |
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Applications
for research and travel
funds will be considered in the order they are received.
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Applications
for special funds, for dissertation / thesis
supplies and for travel to conferences without
academic duties will be considered during the last meeting of
the semester, but only after all other applications for research
and travel funds have been voted on. These applications will be considered
in the order they are received, per the following funding hierarchy:
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All
special funds applications. |
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All
dissertation / thesis supply applications. |
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All
applications for funds to travel to a conference without
academic duties. |
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No
application may be submitted earlier than the initial
acceptance date established by the GSO council. |
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All GSO
applications must be submitted 48 hours before the meeting
at which they are to be considered. All applications must be
complete when submitted. Your department representative can submit
your application for you, or you can submit it directly to the GSO
president, Kevin Moberly. He has a mailbox in the English Department
office, Griffin Hall 221. |
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Applicants
are required to attend the GSO
meeting at which their applications for financial support
will be considered. |
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If an applicant
cannot attend the meeting at which his or her application is to
be considered, the applicant must arrange for a proxy to attend in
his or her absence. The applicant must send a letter (or e-mail) to
the GSO president detailing
the proxy arrangements he or she has made. |
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At
least eight GSO representatives
from different departments must be present during the fall
or spring meetings for any GSO applications to be considered.
Furthermore, no applications will be considered unless a GSO representative
from the applicant's department is present. |
