Fund: UCR Dance Graduate Student Support Fund Department: Dance Dept D01036 Purpose: Graduate Student Support Fund Purpose: This fund shall be used to provide support to graduate students in the Department of Dance. BACKGROUND: The Fund is designed to strengthen the graduate programs of the UCR Department of Dance through enhanced financial support of its MFA and PhD students. General Purpose This Fund shall be used to provide support to graduate students in the Department of Dance. The Department of Dance will administer the Fund. Criteria and Selection Process Under the direction of the Chair of the Department of Dance, or his/her designee, this Fund shall be used to support MFA and PhD students in the Department of Dance. The Chair or his/her designee may appoint a committee to review and select recipients from the pool of eligible candidates. It is the Fund-establishing donor’s intent that the Fund be used in support of the following graduate student funding priorities: full-year and partial-year fellowships, recruitment support, MFA and PhD projects/research, travel awards, tuition coverage, and nonresident supplemental tuition coverage. Recipients shall be selected based on a combination of merit and need. In years when there is no candidate who meets the criteria, awards will be held until the following year.