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.
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
DIVISION OF GRADUATE STUDIES
APPLICATION FOR GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT
DEPARTMENT: MAJOR/ DEGREE
STUDENT NAME: EMAIL:
MAILING ADDRESS:
STUDENT ID#: TELEPHONE NUMBER:
FACULTY MENTOR:
CONFERENCE/ MEETING TO BE ATTENDED:
LOCATION:
DATE(S) OF MEETING:
HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY PRIOR GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS FROM THE DIVISION OF GRADUATE
STUDIES? YES
NO
A COPY OF THE SUBMITTED ABSTRACT LISTING THE TITLE OF THE PRESENTATION AND THE
AUTHOR/PRESENTER MUST BE ATTACHED
TRAVEL GRANT AWARD LIMITS*
$300 FOR PRESENTATION IN CALIFORNIA $____________________
$500 FOR PRESENTATION IN THE U.S. OUTSIDE
OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA $____________________
$500 FOR INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATION
OUTSIDE OF THE U.S.
$______________________
FUNDING FROM OTHER SOURCES ( - ): $_________________________
TOTAL REQUESTED: $
*TRAVEL MUST COMPLY WITH TRAVEL POLICIES OF THE UNIVERSITY. (SEE GUIDELINES IN YOUR
DEPARTMENT OFFICE).
DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION: TOTAL STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS ARE LIMITED FOR EACH
GRADUATE DEPARTMENT. IT IS THE DEPARTMENT’S RESPONSIBILTY TO ENSURE FAIRNESS IN
THOSE INSTANCES IN WHICH MORE THEN ONE STUDENT WISHES TO SEEK SUCH FUNDS. TO ASSIST
THE DIVISION OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN MAKING THESE AWARDS, PLEASE RESPOND TO THE
FOLLOWING:
ATTACH A LIST OF ANY ADDITIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO WILL BE REQUESTING A
TRAVEL GRANT DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR. ESTIMATED TOTAL COST: $
DEPARTMENT APPROVAL FOR FUNDING IS RECOMMENDED FOR THIS APPLICATION IN THE
AMOUNT OF: $
Faculty Mentor Signature Date
Department Chair Signature Date
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