Graduate Student Financial Support

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The Community Studies Department will make every effort to provide financial support to admitted graduate students who are making satisfactory academic progress in the program.

Depending on the availability of funds and the recommendations of the faculty admissions committee, department support may be given in the form of fellowship awards, graduate student research assistantships, teaching assistantship positions, readership positions, travel awards, summer research monies, or dissertation awards. Support packages that are awarded by the department for the first year of study are not guaranteed for the second year, although every effort will be made to assist second year students in finding financial support.

The Community Studies Department is not able to offer production-specific funding to Social Documentation students, but every effort will be made to assist students in locating and applying for suitable grant funding for project productions.

For information about loans and other types of campus funding opportunities, refer to the UCSC Graduate Division's Financial Aid site.