Effective FY23, each department will receive an annual fixed allocation of diversity incentive money that they may use as part of their overall strategy to achieve the university’s goals of recruiting, retaining, and graduating an increasingly more diverse graduate student cohort. For FY 22/23, this amount shall be up to $30,000. Departments that offer both the PhD and MFA shall receive one $30K allocation.
For FY24, departments should expect to receive up to $30k, based on actual, eligible expenditures.
For FY25, departments should expect to receive up to $30k, based on actual, eligible expenditures.
For a full list of eligible departments and amounts, please review the spreadsheet here.
For the announcement shared December 2021, please see: 2021-12-03 New Approach to Advancing Graduate Program Competitiveness and Diversity.pdf
For the FY23/24 DI fund announcement, please see: 2023_03_24 Diversity Incentive Funds Academic Year 2023-24
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Diversity resources should be allocated as direct-to-student* aid. Departments may choose what amounts to award, and may spend money on more than one student. The money does not need to be spent on incoming students, although a department is free to do so. However, when allocating resources, departments must adhere to the following spending guidelines, which have been recommended by the task force. This direct-to-student aid may be spent in any of the following ways (specific students must be identified as recipients of specific amounts): - To top off the stipend of a student who contributes to diversity
- As additional summer stipend support for a student who contributes to diversity
- As direct admission recruitment support of a student who contributes to diversity; this may include any approach to help yield an accepted student (such as travel to UCSD, or other recruitment support to help an accepted student choose our campus)
- As research support (including* conference travel, data collection support, support for archival work, fieldwork support, etc.) for a student who contributes to diversity
- As a partial or full “buyout” from TA responsibilities for a student who contributes to diversity
- To fully or partially match other departmental support for a student who contributes to diversity
*Note: all payments to enrolled students will be paid via stipend or fee payment, processed via FSRT. This includes support intended to cover the costs of research support as described above (this allows direct cash payment to the student before they incur out-of-pocket costs, while still meeting tax reporting requirements). Payments to prospective students may be paid as a reimbursement (as in the case of recruitment travel & expenditures). |
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| title | Do funds roll over from one year to the next? |
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| No, departments must spend the money on an annual basis. No carry forward of diversity incentive monies shall be allowed. |
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| title | Do departments need to let FSU know the project that will be used? |
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| No, you did not need to let us know what project is being used for the Diversity Incentive Funds. We will be pulling a report of all projects with a project class code of Diversity Initiative to determine each department's project. |
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| title | Will an AIDID be required to pay stipends and fees? |
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| Yes - for more information, please see GSAS: Request New AIDID |
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| title | Can the funds be used for direct-to-student aid for students in the department who are not PhD (or MFA) students? |
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| No, as with other graduate funding reform initiatives, the funds only pertain to PhD or MFA students; they cannot be used for MS students. |
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| title | Q: Are JDP programs eligible for the Diversity Incentive Program funding? |
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| As most Joint Doctoral Program students’ (JDP) tuition and fees are not paid at, and based at UC San Diego, JDP programs are not eligible for UC San Diego’s Diversity Incentive funding. The single exception to this is the JDP - Clinical Psychology, which is a UCSD-based JDP program and therefore eligible for the Diversity Incentive funding. |
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