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Ph.D. students in the Arts and Sciences who are on multi-year
GSAS fellowships and who receive external fellowship awards of $6,000 or more
with an award date that begins July 1, 2007 or after now have the option of one
of the following:
Option 1: Top-Off of External Fellowship
Students may continue to receive GSAS funds to supplement the
external fellowship per the GSAS external award top-off policy. The maximum
total award, including the combination of GSAS and external funds, is $27,000
for 2007-08. Details are available here.
Students who select this option will not extend their GSAS funding by a year and should complete
the Statement of Understanding form,
sign it, and send it to Janet Moy,
Assistant Dean for Financial Aid, 107 Low Memorial Library, MC 4304 by September 15
(for the fall semester or for the academic year, or by January 15 (for spring
semester only awards).
Option 2: Extension of GSAS Funding
Students
may select, in place of topping-off, to defer one year of their GSAS multi-year
fellowship. For example, a student with a five-year fellowship commitment who
gets an external award (of one or more years) in the first five years may take
the award and defer one year of GSAS funding to the sixth or seventh year.
Students who select this option will not be topped off.
Beginning in Fall 2007, students who receive external awards
during a year of GSAS funding and who wish to extend their GSAS funding to a
subsequent year, within the first seven years of registration, should complete
the Statement of Understanding form,
sign it, and send it to Janet Moy,
Assistant Dean for Financial Aid, 107 Low Memorial Library, MC 4304. Students receive neither option until the
form is received in GSAS. Students whose forms are not received by September 15
(for the fall semester or for the academic year, or by January 15 (for spring
semester only awards) will automatically receive the Top-Off of External
Fellowship option and will not defer their GSAS funding.
It is important to note that
- GSAS funds must be used in the first seven years of the Ph.D.
program.
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An external award of one or more years extends GSAS funding
by one year (for students selecting option two, the Extension of GSAS Funding
option). This policy can be used only once; the total extension of GSAS funding is one year.
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With the option of extended GSAS funding, a teaching
fellowship year remains a teaching fellowship year, regardless of which year the
funding is used. Students who receive an external award in a year when they
would be teaching (according to the terms of their multiyear fellowship) and who
extend their GSAS funding are required to complete the teaching obligation when
they use the GSAS funding extension. For example, if a year of teaching
fellowship is replaced with an external fellowship, then the extended funding
year remains a teaching fellowship year.
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Students on external fellowships must be registered full-time
during the term of the fellowship. If the fellowship does not cover students’
tuition and fees, the appropriate full-time tuition and health-related fees
(basic insurance plus access to Columbia Health Services) will be covered by
GSAS. In the event that the external award pays some of the tuition and fees,
GSAS will pay the difference.
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The following awards are not considered external fellowships:
FLAS, Lindt, Reid Hall, Whiting, CU Travel and other
awards funded and/or awarded through Columbia University. Teaching assistantships, such
as the Cordier, PEPM, IRAAS, IRWAGS, and CESR, for
example, are not considered external awards. Typically, external fellowships are
those awarded in a competitive application process external to the university.
The GSAS External Fellowship Award database includes many of these external competitive
awards.
If you have questions about this policy, please see the
Frequently Asked Questions page.
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