Providing enriching research opportunities for graduate students is critical to the teaching and research missions of Indiana University Bloomington. To increase such opportunities and to shift the cost of student academic appointments to external funding sources, where appropriate, incentives will be implemented to encourage faculty to budget graduate student research assistantships on grants and contracts.
Incentive for Extramurally Funded Graduate Research Assistantships
A. Research assistantships for students eligible for G901
Advanced graduate students may be budgeted on grants and contracts without any tuition costs if they are eligible for G901 for the duration of the grant. G901 is a 6 credit-hour course with a fee of $150 (subject to change) that provides an inexpensive way for students with graduate assistantships to maintain a full course load without paying tuition. Eligibility requirements for G901 are established by schools and subject to approval, but typically require completion of a minimum number of hours of coursework and advancement to Nomination for Candidacy. Once students have met eligibility requirements, they may take up to six semesters of G901. Faculty members planning to budget a research assistantship on an external grant or contract for a G901-eligible student must still budget for the student’s full stipend and benefits.
B. Incentive for fully externally-funded graduate students
Faculty who are able to cover full tuition, stipend, and benefits for a graduate research assistant using external grants and contracts will receive an incentive in the amount of $5,000 per year of coverage as a contribution to their research account. Faculty may receive an unlimited number of incentives for each such assistantship. To receive the incentive, full out-of-state tuition must be covered if the student does not qualify for in-state tuition. This incentive program is limited to student academic appointments wherein the tuition would otherwise be funded by a school or, in schools that do not regularly fund student academic appointments, to students on scholarships that cover tuition. As such, incentives are funded by the school that benefits from cost recovery of tuition, stipend, and benefits.