COVER FORM
APPLICATION FOR GTFS, BARNETT AND STERN FELLOWSHIPS,
AND TRANSITION TO THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM

Name of applicant _____________________________________________________________________________
Your degree program __________________________________________________________________________ 
Name of advisor ______________________________________________________________________________

IN ADDITION TO THIS FORM, ALL APPLICATIONS REQUIRE:

 Current curriculum vitae
 Current transcript
 Two or three "Reports on Graduate Applicant"  See details below about how many of these "Reports" are required for each application.
    E-mail proof that you have requested a "Report on Graduate Applicant" from each of your referees.  This e-mail proof is not a substitute for the actual letter.  It merely serves to demonstrate to the Graduate Committee that you have asked referees for letters.
I AM APPLYING FOR:

 Graduate Teaching Fellowship
 This application requires all of the above documents.  In addition two "Reports on Graduate Applicant"  are required.  One of these must be from your advisor (see below for specific requirements for recommendations for particular applications).  If you have already served as a GTF, please have the professor or professors for whom you have served as a GTF submit a "report on graduate applicant."  In addition to what is listed above as required for all applications, the applicant must submit a cover letter indicating his or her teaching experience and philosophy and the courses for which the applicant is most suitable as a GTF.  This is the applicant's chance to make the strongest case for his or her receiving an award.  If progress through the applicant's program has been slow or untimely, the applicant should explain what the mitigating circumstances have been.

 Homer Barnett and Theodore Stern Distinguished Fellowship
These fellowships allow two graduate students to teach a course of their own design for one term and to serve as a GTF for two other terms. Applicants who are not yet advanced to Ph.D. candidacy must be able to advance to candidacy by the end of the term in which they apply for the fellowship. Three "Reports on Graduate Applicant"  are required: the advisor's plus those of two other faculty members. Since this is an extremely competitive award, referees should discuss the student's record and promise, his or her intellectual abilities, and his or her teaching skills, to the degree that they are able. In addition to the documents required for all applications (see above), a syllabus for the proposed course must be submitted.

 Application to Transition to the Doctoral Program
In addition to the required elements listed above, this application requires the completed form "Application for Transition to the Doctoral Program." Three "Reports on Graduate Applicant" are required. The advisor's "report" should describe the applicant's readiness to enter the doctoral program. (The other two referees may be briefer in their remarks.) The applicant should also submit a statement of purpose of 3 to 5 double-spaced pages in length. The statement should describe and justify the dissertation project and indicate how, where, and when it will be pursued. It should also describe the present state of your preparation to undertake this project and what further preparation you require before beginning the research. The applicant should write this document thoughtfully and with care, since it will reveal whether the applicant is suitable to the doctoral program.

NOTE THAT INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.