This program, which originated from the work and recommendations of the Task Force on the Future of the Graduate School, has two components. The first component is the Dean’s Completion Fellowship. It pays the Dissertation Completion Enrollment (DCE) tuition fee and provides fellowship funding at the full standard stipend rate to selected sixth-year (or, currently, seventh-year students) in the humanities and social sciences. Students selected for the program who finish dissertation work and successfully complete the Final Public Oral (FPO) before the end of the semester in which they hold the fellowship then have the opportunity to be appointed as Postgraduate Research Associates (PGRAs) through the Office of the Dean of the Faculty. Given the challenges of scheduling FPOs in the second half of December, students who hold the Dean’s Completion Fellowship in the fall semester are given one additional month (January) to complete the FPO and still qualify for the PGRA appointment. (Fellowship continues for them in the month of January to support their possible completion.) Students who hold the Fellowship in the spring semester have until the end of May to complete the FPO and qualify for the PGRA appointment.
A department must determine who will receive its allocated slot(s), fill out this Google form in addition to submitting to
graddean@princeton.edu the other bulleted items requested in the Sixth-Year Funding: The Dean’s Completion Fellowship/PGRA Program memo.
Deadline:
Monday, May 2, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.