Graduate College General Fund: The purpose of this general fund is to support Florida Atlantic graduate students in need through what we market as Graduate Student Hardship Scholarships. These scholarships permit students to focus on their advanced studies by relieving some of the burden associated with the high cost of living in Palm Beach and Broward counties. Assistance from the Hardship Scholarships partially offsets the costs of room and board, as well as emergency funding. Hardship scholarship applications are reviewed as they are received. The fund also supports our Thesis & Dissertation Scholarships, which students apply for as they near completion of their master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation. These scholarships help the student by ensuring that they can focus on completing their transformative research and scholarship and the timely completion of their degree. If 40 donors each gave $500.00, then the Graduate College would be able to significantly increase the number of scholarships disbursed in this academic year.
Graduate Student Research Scholarship Fund: The purpose of this funding is to support research projects by Florida Atlantic graduate students; eliminating the need for students to pay out-of-pocket for supplies or resources needed to complete their thesis or dissertation research projects. In the past, such awards have been made with the requirement that the academic college provide matching funds in support of the graduate student’s research project. The number of awards made yearly has varied depending on the available funding and the size of the request. If 40 donors each gave $500.00 to this fund, then the Graduate College would improve its marketing of this support mechanism and be able to disburse more research scholarship awards.
