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Resources for
Faculty and Staff
Graduate
Students of Color "Getting Connected
Reception & Orientation"
Incoming
minority graduate students, current
minority graduate students and
faculty are invited to GO-MAP’s
"Getting Connected" New Minority
Graduate Student Orientation and
Fall Reception. "Getting Connected"
supplements departmental
orientations and is an opportunity
for incoming minority graduate
students to meet current minority
graduate students, staff and faculty
from other departments, and get
information about how to survive
graduate school. While this event is
geared toward minority and
underrepresented students, it is
open to all graduate students.
"Getting Connected" typically takes
place the third week of October.
Prospective Student Days 2009: April
1-2
Admitted
students have the opportunity to get
a jumpstart on networking with
faculty and students, familiarize
themselves with the campus, get a
sense of the overall UW community,
and with greater Seattle. On the
first day of the event, GO-MAP hosts
a breakfast and later on in the day,
a welcome reception for all visiting
students, and on the second day of
the event, a luncheon. The admitted
prospective students spend most of
visit in their departments visiting
with faculty and other graduate
students. We hope that Prospective
Student Days will further assist
students in the final stages of
their decision-making process and
aid in building a graduate student
and faculty campus culture conscious
of bridging differences.
GO-MAP would like to assist
departments in bringing students to
campus whom they feel will
contribute to the diversity of their
department, but who could not
otherwise afford to visit. GO-MAP
travel funding is limited; however,
once you have identified potential
candidates, please contact us for
more information about applying for
these funds (206-543-9016 or
gomap
at u.washington.edu).
Information about Prospective
Student Days will be available in
January. To visit the Prospective
Student Days page, please click
here.
Nominating Students for a GO-MAP
Diversity Fellowship
GO-MAP encourages the nomination
of students who have achieved
academic merit despite
significant social, economic, or
educational challenges in their
pursuit of higher education,
such as students who are
first-generation to attend
college or graduate school, or
students whose educational
training has not exposed them to
a wide array of resources.
Graduate programs are notified
of various funding opportunities
through GO-MAP, and are
encouraged to establish internal
guidelines for identifying and
nominating potential award
recipients. Calls for diversity
fellowship nominations usually
go out at the beginning of
January; nomination usually are
due to the GO-MAP office by the
mid-February. For more
information about nominating a
student for a GO-MAP diversity
fellowship and for current
year's deadlines, email
gomap at u.washington.edu.
Graduate Opportunity Program
Award (GOP RA)
Departments are invited to apply
for the Graduate Opportunity
Program (GOP) award, a
merit-based research
assistantship designed to
increase the quality of
education and research at the
University of Washington. Since
the quality of graduate programs
depends to a great extent upon
intellectually talented, highly
motivated, and well prepared
students from diverse
backgrounds, departmental awards
will be made on a competitive
basis to graduate units seeking
assistance in developing a
diverse community of scholars
and/or scholarship and research
that explores and supports
cultural diversity.
Departments selected may award
GOP funding to recruit students
who have achieved academic merit
despite significant obstacles in
their pursuit of higher
education, students who are the
first generation to attend
college or graduate school, or
students whose educational
training has not exposed them to
a wide array of resources. Award
recipients must be citizens,
immigrants, or permanent
residents of the US, and must be
in the first year of graduate
study at the UW.
Applications for the GOP usually
go out in January, with a
submission deadline of
mid-February. For more
information about the GOP
application process, current
year's deadline, etc., email
gomap at u.washington.edu.
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