The Graduate School Announces the Annual Competition for the Herschel
and Cornelia Everett Foundation First-Year Graduate Fellowships

 

 

The Herschel and Cornelia Everett Foundation First-Year Graduate Fellowships provide stipends of $15,000 and $10,000 plus tuition awards to one newly admitted doctoral student and one newly admitted master’s student respectively for their first year of study at UNC Charlotte. Each year during the spring semester, the Graduate School will award these fellowships in an effort to recruit high quality graduate students into degree programs at UNC Charlotte.

 

            The following eligibility requirements apply to these Fellowships:

 

·        Preference will be given to U.S. citizens who are classified as residents of North Carolina or South Carolina.

·        Minimum 3.20 undergraduate cumulative grade point average.

·        Newly admitted into a graduate degree program (master's or doctoral) at UNC Charlotte and has not begun program of study (first-year student).

·        Must enroll as a full time graduate student for the fall and spring semesters.

 

Prospective students cannot apply directly for this fellowship program but are nominated by the graduate program to which they are applying. Any program may submit one nomination for the doctoral and master’s award as appropriate. Nomination materials should include a letter of nomination by the program coordinator or director and a complete copy of the student's application to Graduate School, which should include transcripts, letters of recommendation, statement of purpose or essay and any other materials included with the degree application. All materials should be sent to: The Everett Foundation First-Year Graduate Fellowship, The Graduate School, 210 Cato Hall, no later than 5 pm March 28, 2008.