Graduate Student Funding

Graduate Teaching Fellowships

Students admitted to the doctoral program are normally given a Graduate Teaching Fellowship, which carries with it a full tuition waiver, health insurance, and a monetary stipend. Graduate Teaching Fellowships are awarded on a year-long basis, and it is expected that a doctoral student will receive at least four years of support, assuming that he or she continues to make satisfactory progress toward the doctoral degree. Graduate Teaching Fellows are represented in collective bargaining with the University by the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation.

Graduate Teaching Fellowships are considered to be an integral part of our doctoral program and not merely a means of financial support. Faculty members devote a considerable amount of time and effort to training teaching assistants and evaluating their performance. In addition to weekly meetings with teaching assistants, the Department offers a year-long seminar on teaching that treats issues such as syllabus preparation, discussion strategies, advising, examinations, and the philosophy of education. Graduate Teaching Fellowships are thus an important part of our students' preparation for the job market and their later professional experience as teachers.

Many students in both our master's and our doctoral program secure Graduate Teaching Fellowship support by teaching in other departments and programs, such as Religious Studies, Women's & Gender Studies Program, Humanities, English, and Ethnic Studies. Information on these and other current Graduate Teaching Fellowship positions may be found on the University of Oregon Graduate School's website: http://gradschool.uoregon.edu/gtf-openings. Information on Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships may be found on the FLAS funding page of the CAPS web site at http://cascourses.uoregon.edu/caps/?p=45 or contact Lori O'Hollaren at (541) 346-1521 or loholl@uoregon.edu.

General Duties and Responsibilities Statement for GTFs in Philosophy (pdf)

Travel Stipends

The department also offers graduate students a travel stipend for professional conferences and job interviews at the APA (American Philosophical Association Conference).

Each PhD student is eligible for two reimbursements for expenses up to $400 each for conference travel, and one reimbursement of up to $400 for travel to the APA for an interview. Each MA student is eligible for one reimbursement for expenses up to $400 for conference travel.

The travel stipends are administered by the Placement Committee.

Other Funding

Other funding resources may be found at Alternative Sources of Travel Funding and on the University of Oregon Graduate School's website: http://gradschool.uoregon.edu/other-uo-graduate-awards