Purpose
The Parental Leave Fellowship Application is used by new parents who are also Graduate Assistants to apply for a Fellowship period. During this Fellowship, the student retains full stipend and benefits, provides no service to the University, and maintains enrollment as a full-time (9+ credits) student. Eligibility requirements include: the birth of a child; the recent adoption of a child under the age of six; or, the assumption of other parenting responsibilities (e.g. foster parenting, legal guardianship) of a child under the age of six.
Workflow:
First, the form is filled out by the Graduate Assistant, then the Graduate Assistant Supervisor, followed by the Graduate Program Director and the Graduate School Associate Dean before finally reaching a signing group for completion.
Overall Process:
The Graduate Assistant will identify the Graduate Assistant Supervisor, Graduate Program Director, and Graduate School Associate Dean by entering their names and email on the webform.
Then on the webform, the Graduate Assistant will enter the start and end dates of the parental leave.
Once the Graduate Assistant enters the form, they will need to upload a doctor’s note for child birth or a social service agency’s note for adoption, etc.
After that, the Graduate Assistant will sign and the form will go to the Graduate Assistant Supervisor.
The Graduate Assistant Supervisor will enter the form and fill in an amount for reimbursement, bi-weekly pay, and the department’s chartstring.
Then, they will sign the form and it will go to the Graduate Program Director to look over and sign.
Next, it goes to the Graduate School Associate Dean to look over and sign.
Lastly, it goes to the signing group who fills out the graduate school designation, and initials the form.