DIVISION OF GRADUATE STUDIES
GUIDELINES
GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT
PURPOSE:
The CSU, Fresno, Division of Graduate Studies (DGS) awards travel grants to graduate students who have
had papers and/or posters accepted for presentation at major professional conferences or society meetings.
Recognition of the student’s scholarly work in such refereed forums is a source of pride for the university,
and the Division provides these funds to encourage and promote its graduate students. The assurance that
these special opportunities remain available to students from all university graduate programs rests with the
Division, which requires fairness in awarding these travel grants.
LIMITATIONS:
Travel grant funds are limited and may not be sufficient to cover all of the requests made for such support.
These funds are supplemental to those normally available through the department or college/school.
Funding supports only the student who is making the formal presentation. It is expected that the student will
formally acknowledge this support from the CSU Fresno, Division of Graduate Studies in program
announcements during the presentation. In those instances where in several students from the same
department have each had their papers accepted for presentation at the same meeting, students may only
receive an equal and proportionate share of a base allocation for this meeting/conference. It is the
responsibility of the applicants and department chair to ascertain the likelihood that other CSUF students
will be participating at the same meeting and will be applying for a travel grant. It is necessary to impose
this limitation on funding when multiple requests are made so that one program does not receive an
inordinately large amount of funding or even exhaust the funding available for the campus to the exclusion
of students from other graduate programs. Similarly, a student may not receive more than one travel
grant from this fund. Priority funding is provided for matriculated master’s degree candidates; other
graduate students may receive travel grants, if funding is available.
APPLICATION PROCEDURES:
Applicants must submit the following information to the Dean, Division of Graduate Studies, Frank W. Thomas
Building, Room 132 (Ma
il Stop TA51) at least 30 days prior to the conference. Travel grants are
awarded prior to the event.
REQUIRED
:
• Application for Graduate Student Travel Grant
• Abstract of papers and/or posters to be presented
• Copy of the letter of acceptance of the work to be presented
• Announcement of the conference or meeting
• Letters of support from the Department Chair, Department Graduate Program Coordinator and
faculty advisor
• A brief formal report on the outcomes of the presentation must be submitted to the Division of
Graduate Studies with a copy to the department chair.