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Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship (ECR)

OVERVIEW:

The Eugene Cota-Robles (ECR) Fellowship is a multi-year fellowship award comprised of two years of centrally fellowship support during the fellows’ first (1^st) and fourth (4^th) year of study with a required guaranteed of departmental support (e.g., from TA/GSR/GSAR funding) during the student’s second (2^nd) and third (3^rd) years of study. This award is used to release recipients from employment or loan obligations that might delay progress in graduate study and to place students interested in careers in academic teaching and research on a fast-track towards achieving their doctoral degree, thereby increasing the number of qualified candidates for faculty positions within the University of California. The Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship is named in honor of one of the earliest Mexican-American professors in the University of California.

GENERAL ENTERING STUDENT DIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS:

Nominees must be entering first-year graduate students only (must enroll Fall Quarter).
Nominees must demonstrate high potential and promise.
Nominees must indicate an interest in an academic career in teaching and research*.
Nominees must be United States citizens or permanent residents of the United States of America.
Nominees must provide evidence of a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA as undergraduates or masters students.
Students must enroll in 12 units (full-time) during each quarter of fellowship tenure.
Nominees must demonstrate experience of situations or conditions which were an impediment to advancing to graduate study, such as socioeconomic or educational limitations, the absence of a family member who attended college, matriculation in a school with poor financial or curricular support, having a physical or learning disability or working long hours while attending school.

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS SPECIFIC TO THIS FELLOWSHIP:

All nominees must be doctoral students entering their first year of graduate study at UCI (all disciplines).
All nominees must indicate an interest in an academic career in teaching and research.

REQUIREMENTS:

Fellows are prohibited from being employed during the first and fourth year of this award.

FUNDING PACKAGE:

The first year, the Graduate Division will award fellowship funding via an $18,000 stipend paid over a 9 or 12 month period (left up to the discretion of the department and/or student who must inform the Office of Graduate Studies by June 1st of the student’s preference for disbursement) plus payment of full student resident fees
Non-resident tuition is not provided.
The Graduate Division will initiate second full year of stipend and fee support during the student’s fourth (4th) year of study only after the department has provided verification of satisfactory academic progress for each ECR fellow and the student has submitted a response to all requests from the Office of Graduate Studies related to evaluation and/or participation in this diversity program.
During the second (2nd) and third (3rd) years, the student’s department is obligated to provide funding of equivalent support levels.
Fellowships may also be supplemented by department funding.

HOW TO APPLY:

Students should check with the department to which they are applying for internal departmental deadlines.
Students should complete UCI's Entering Students - Diversity Fellowship Supplemental Online Application.
Students should notify the department to which they are applying of the submitted application so that the application may be reviewed for nomination consideration.
Departments are responsible for submitting their top candidates to their school Dean for review.
Academic schools are responsible for nominating their school’s top candidates in ranked order to the Office of Graduate Studies by the deadline established in the UCI Diversity Program Guide.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Raslyn Rendon
Acting Director of Outreach, Recruitment, and Retention
Graduate Division
Tel.: (949) 824-9169
Fax: (949) 824-9096
E-Mail: rrendon@uci.edu

* All diversity fellowship nominees EXCEPT those students nominated for the Graduate Opportunity Fellowship (GOF) must indicate a strong interest in an academic career in teaching and research.
** Fellowship award recipients will be required to participate in UCI’s tracking programs to assess student progress and eventual job placement.
*** Nominations will be based on the student’s merit and his/her contribution to the diversity of their discipline/graduate program. In accordance with state law, nominees to state-funded programs are not given preferential treatment on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion or national origin.