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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).