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Application and eligibility for financial aidAll incoming students are automatically considered for those sources of financial aid administered by the department (see below for details). You do not need to apply separately for these. Information on additional sources of funding (external to the Linguistics Department) can be found on the Office of Graduate Studies web site. Information on loans and on work-study positions is available on the university’s Financial Aid Office website. Continuing graduate students will be contacted each year to submit the departmental financial aid request form (which will be provided to you in December). This form is due to the Linguistics Graduate Assistant by January 15. Availability and administration of financial aidThe information here is adapted from the Linguistics Graduate Student Manual. University of New Mexico support for graduate students takes two forms: assistantships and fellowships. A few fellowships are awarded through UNM's Office of Graduate Studies and are open on a highly competitive basis to all graduate students in the university. The Department also offers the Joseph H. Greenberg Fellowship to one outstanding PhD applicant per year. The Greenberg Fellow is supported by the Fellowship fund for two years and is guaranteed a teaching assistantship or other support for two additional years, conditional on adequate progress in their studies.
The Department of Linguistics each year provides limited financial support to graduate students. This support currently includes several graduate and teaching assistantships. The assistantship awards are made strictly on the basis of academic merit, and are allocated by the department faculty collectively in March for the following academic year. Those selected for assistantships may be assigned to serve as an assistant to a faculty member, or to have full teaching responsibility for a course (typically a section of Ling 101, Introduction to the Study of Language). Most assistantships are half-time (.25 FTE) and provide an annual stipend, tuition remission for up to 6 credit hours per semester and a health insurance plan. Because the number of assistantships is limited, and the nature of the work requires a substantial background in linguistics, assistantships are generally not awarded to entering MA students. Entering PhD students will be considered for assistantships in Linguistics, or for nomination for other forms of support that may be available. Tuition fellowships through the Office of Graduate Studies are available only to those who are permanent residents of the state of New Mexico. The awards are made on the basis of merit and financial need. Tuition remission for up to 12 credit hours per semester may be available. In addition, research assistantships and project assistantships are occasionally available to graduate students to work on research or public service projects usually funded by outside sources. Selection of assistants is made by the faculty member who serves as the project's principal investigator, and the primary basis for selection is the student's ability to handle the specific project assignment. Examples of recent projects include Perceptual Processing in Delayed Language Learners (funded by the National Institutes of Health and directed by Jill Morford), Jicarilla Apache Dictionary Project, and Nanbé Tewa Language Revitalization Project: Production of an Electronic Archive (funded by the National Science Foundation and directed by Melissa Axelrod), and Modeling Durations in Connected Discourse (funded by the National Science Foundation and directed by Caroline Smith). Graduate students in linguistics often receive support in other University programs, for example, as instructors in the writing program in the Department of English, as instructors in the Center for English Language and American Culture (CELAC), as tutors in the Center for Academic Program Support (CAPS), and as teaching assistants, and project assistants in other departments in the College of Arts and Sciences such as the Department of Spanish & Portuguese or the Department of Foreign Languages. If you are interested in a position as a teaching assistant in the departments of English, Spanish and Portuguese, or Foreign Languages, please read the College's information page, \and notify the Linguistics department's Graduate Advisor of your interest early in the Spring semester. The GPSA's Student Research Allocations Committee provides money for graduate student research projects and for travel expenses to conferences. Contact: SRAC, Graduate and Professional Student Association, Student Union Building 200, 277-3803. The Department Chair may also have limited supplementary funds for student travel and research projects; a "Travel Request" form is available from the Department Administrator. Work-study positions are also available for graduate students with in-state tuition status. You must apply for Financial Aid to be offered on of these positions. Applications are available at finaid.unm.edu. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||