Dadisman Supplement

Admissions and Financial Awards Committee, Department of Economics

The intent is to provide Graduate Assistants making appropriate progress towards the Ph.D. degree with an additional stipend of $500 per semester during the 3rd and 4th years of study.This stipend supplement will be financed out of the Dadisman fund.

Eligibility Requirements:

Student must have been awarded a Graduate Assistantship and must be working towards a Ph.D. in economics.
Student must be in good academic standing as defined by the "criteria for renewal of an assistantship."
Student must have passed all comprehensive exams.
To receive the stipend supplement for Fall of the 4th year, the student must have either successfully defended the dissertation proposal or the dissertation advisor must certify at the beginning of the 4th year that the student is making significant progress toward completing the dissertation no later than the Summer of the 4th year.
To receive the stipend supplement for Spring of the 4th year, the student must have successfully defended the dissertation proposal and the dissertation advisor must certify that the student is making significant progress toward completing the dissertation no later than the Summer of the 4th year.

If any of these conditions are not met at the beginning of the relevant semester, the student will start receiving the stipend supplement for the remainder of her/his 3rd and 4th years, starting the semester following the semester that these conditions are met.

Exceptions may be made only under unusual circumstances.

Effective deadlines for the proposal defense are August 15 (the beginning of the 4th year), to receive the supplement for Fall of the 4th year) or December 15 of the 4th year, to receive the supplement for the second semester of the 4th year.Deadlines for passing comprehensive exams are the effective comprehensive exam dates (with grading delays not counted against the student).