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Types of Funded Student:
Types of Funded Student:
Faculty Funded Student - funds are provided to the student from the faculty and are provided in return for service to the faculty. This service is in the form of teaching assistantships. Students may decline an assignment and in doing so, voluntarily reduce their level of financial support. When students accept an assignment they are accountable to the faculty for satisfactory completion of the assigned duties. Faculty members can only supervise two faculty funded students at a given time.
Supervisor Funded Student - funds are provided to the student by the supervisor (or another faculty member) from grants received. This funding is provided in the form of a research assistantship and the duties are primarily to support the supervisor (or other faculty) academic research.
The first priority to assigning teaching assistantship duties is to Faculty Funded students.
Graduate students may receive funding from other sources including scholarships, graduate assistantships (GA) and direct support from research funds (trust accounts) held by professors. Many students receive funding from more than one source, and while the Graduate Programs Office normally attempts to coordinate information on the various payments, ultimately students must take responsibility for knowledge of their financial situation.
While scholarships are usually held for 8 or 12 month periods, appointments for teaching and research assistantships are normally made at the beginning of each term (September, and January).
The Graduate Program Office will provide a letter to each student (copied to the supervisor) at the beginning of July to confirm the current understanding of funding from research assistantships, teaching appointments and scholarships for upcoming academic year. The Graduate Program Office staff will attempt to document and communicate any changes in funding arrangements during the year.
A Faculty funded GA will not extend beyond two weeks after a student passes her or his final oral defense, or after the signed completion of the Notice of Completion of Capping Project form. Typically, the time frame for submission of the thesis to FGPS following a pass with revisions is two weeks.
Course-based master's students (including MCoach students) are ineligible to receive Faculty Operation funded research assistantships (RA), but may be considered for Teaching Assistantships (TA) when available.
Sources of Funding
Sources of Funding
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