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FERPA

FERPA training is required of every Virginia Tech faculty, staff, wage, and student employee who has access to student data and must be renewed every two years. This training required of employees with access to student data.

Scholarships

University Scholarships and Financial Aid offers training for all scholarship administrators at Virginia Tech on a quarterly basis. This course covers the use of Scholarship Central and includes an overview of financial aid and scholarship processes.

Banner Screens

There is additional Banner training related to student appointments.

Banner Student

HR Banner Entering Student Wage Appointments

Policies and Procedures

Tuition Remission

Find answers on how to manage, award, and fund, graduate assistantships through the tuition remission process.

Student Privacy

Understand how and what type of student information can be shared digitally by reviewing the Standards for High Risk Digital Data Protection.

Fellowship Payments

Review the procedures on how to fund student fellowships and stipends.

Policy Reminders

Out-of-state (OOS) tuition differentials are waived for graduate assistants who earn more than $4,000 during the academic year ($2,000 per semester) while on assistantship stipend. The student must be on an assistantship contract in order to receive this waiver. To receive a summer OOS waiver students must have been on a 9- or 12-month assistantship and earned at $2,000 per semester or a spring-only assistantship and earned at least $4,000 between August 10 and May 9.
Students on Fall and Spring contracts must be enrolled in a minimum of 12 hours each semester.
Graduate assistants who defend during the semester are expected to continue the assistantship until the end of the spring semester regardless of their defense and ETD submission date.

Graduate Student Funding Guide

A comprehensive Graduate Student Funding Guide provides details about all aspects of assistantship management from contract creation through appointment entry and tuition remission award and funding procedures. Login with VT Google credentials is required for accessing the guide.

FUNDING for Registered Student Organizations

Student organizations must register ANNUALLY with Student Engagement and Campus Life in GobblerConnect and be in good standing with the university in order to receive additional funding. After an organization is registered, organizations can get set up with Student Affairs/Advancement to take donations. This setup process only needs to be done once.

Organizations need to first identify which board to apply to for funding.

Majority Undergraduate - USS Appropriations
Majority Graduate- GSBB

Once the board is identified, individuals submitting on behalf of the organization will complete the funding workshop and then submit the funding application.

Directions on How to Apply