The California Pre-Doctoral Program is designed to increase the
pool of potential faculty by supporting the doctoral aspirations of CSU
students who have experienced economic and educational disadvantages.
Announcements and application forms are circulated early each
spring.
http://www.calstate.edu/PreDoc/
CSU Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program
Program Description
The Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program is designed to
increase the diversity of persons qualified to fill instructional faculty
positions at campuses of the California
State University. It provides loans to students to
complete doctoral study in selected disciplines of particular relevance to
the CSU. Doctoral students in the program are sponsored by CSU tenure-track
faculty to establish early relationships between CSU academic departments and
program participants, to encourage the students during their doctoral
studies, and to provide experiences that will stimulate interest in a
teaching career in the CSU. A major incentive for loan recipients to seek
teaching positions in the CSU is that loans are forgiven at a rate of 20
percent for each year of full-time teaching in the CSU subsequent to
completing the doctorate and successfully competing for a faculty position.
http://www.calstate.edu/Budget/1997_98BudIndex/9798LottBud/FLP9798.shtml
HOW TO FIND
MONEY FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL 
The
Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside has put together
an impressive detailed step by step guide to seeking financial aid on their
website: http://www.graddiv.ucr.edu/Funding.html
 
* Student Loans (also called
Stafford and Perkins Loans)
* Parent Loans (also called PLUS)
* Private Loans (also called
Alternative)
* Loan
Consolidation
Grants, scholarships, work-study and other forms of gift aid
just do not cover the full cost of a college education. Many students find
that they must supplement their savings with government and private loans.
The Federal education loan programs offer lower interest ratesand more flexible repayment plans than most consumer
loans, making them an attractive way to finance your education.
Education loans come in three major categories: student loans, parent loans and private loans. A fourth type, consolidation
loans,
allows the borrower to lump all of their loans into one loan for simplified
payment.
The student
loan interest rates starting July 1, 2002 will be at the lowest levels ever.
The interest rate for Stafford Loans will be 4.06%, down from 5.99%. (The
in-school interest rate will be 3.46%.) The interest rate for PLUS loans wil
be 4.86%, down from 6.79%. Students who will be graduating or who have already
graduated but not yet consolidated their loans should consider consolidating
their loans after July 1, 2002 in order to lock in the new low rates.
http://www.finaid.org/loans/
BEWARE Scholarship Scams
If you have to pay money to get money, it's probably a
scam.
Every year, several
hundred thousand students and parents are defrauded by scholarship scams. The
victims of these scams lose more than $100 million annually. Scam operations
often imitate legitimate government agencies, grant-giving foundations,
education lenders and scholarship matching services, using official-sounding
names containing words like "National," "Federal,"
"Foundation," or "Administration."
* Common
Scholarship Scams
* Protecting
Yourself from Scholarship Scams
* Evaluating
Scholarship Matching Services
* Evaluating
Financial Aid Consultants
* How to Report
Scams
* Consumer
Education Materials
* How to
Investigate uspicious Offers
* The College
Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act of 2000
http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/scams.phtml
Other Funding Sources For Minority
Students
This page (from www.finaid.org)
contains information about scholarships and fellowships for minority
students. http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/minority.phtml
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Offers different scholarship programs for students of various
educational backgrounds. All applicants must be U.S.
citizens or legal permanent residents of Hispanic heritage.
College
Scholarship Program
The College
Scholarship Program is available to full-time students at an accredited
college or university in the U.S.or
Puerto Rico. Interested applicants must have completed
at least 15 undergraduate credits with a minimum GPA of 2.7. This scholarship
is available on a competitive basis to undergraduate and graduate students.
The application postmark deadline is October 15th. Applications are available
from August 1st to October 9th on the HSF website. http://hsf.net/scholarship/general.html
Project 1000
WHO IS ELIGIBLE?
Student Eligibility - 1) U.S. citizens or permanent residents
of Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American or other Latin American ethnic
heritage (regardless of address); OR 2) African American or Native
American(including U.S. Pacific Islander) students who are either residents
of or are currently attending a university in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New
Mexico, Utah, Western Texas (El Paso and the Tigua Indian Reservation) and
the United States Virgin Islands.
Program Eligibility - Eligible fields within Project 1000 are
those disciplines that require the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or those
programs that do not have an entrance exam requirement. http://mati.eas.asu.edu:8421/p1000/whatis.html
 
The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS), funded by a grant from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was established in 1999 to provide
outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific
Islander Americans, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to
complete an undergraduate college education, in all discipline areas and a
graduate education for those students pursuing studies in mathematics,
science, engineering, education, or library science
http://www.gmsp.org/about/index.cfm
Ford Foundation Pre doctoral Fellowships For Minorities
Program
To increase the
presence of underrepresented minorities on the nation's college and
university faculties, to enhance diversity on campuses, and to address the
persisting effects of past discrimination, the Ford Foundation offers
predoctoral fellowships to members of six minority groups whose
underrepresentation in the professoriate has been severe and long-standing.
The fellowship program identifies individuals with demonstrated ability and
provides them the opportunity to engage in graduate study leading to a Doctor
of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree.
Approximately60
predoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a national competition
administered by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies
on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The awards will be made to those
individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, have demonstrated
superio scholarship and show the greatest promise for future achievement as
scholars, researchers, and teachers in institutions of higher education.
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fellowships/fordpredoc.html
 And, later, apply for Grants to fund
your research career: http://www.csulb.edu/~jrjung/grants.htm
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NIMH-COR at CSULB is supported by Grant MH16891 from the
National Institute of Mental Health.
 
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