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CII Grad Assistantships and Fellowships
The Community Informatics Initiative is funded primarily by grants. As of Fall 2009, we are working hard to write and obtain more grants so that we may continue to support students and their work in community informatics. While we are pleased to have received funding from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services for past student support as well as the University for faculty research, those grants will end shortly. We continually seek funding to support assistantships, fellowships, and other configurations of tuition waivers and/or stipends that are open to both master’s and doctoral students. Fellowships—when we are able to offer them--are only available to students in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS). Assistantships are up to 50% (20 hours/week); on-campus GSLIS students will be given first consideration for assistantships.
Limited funding is available if any of the current assistants leave their position. If you have any questions please contact Sharon Irish at slirish@illinois.edu.
Watch this page for announcements of new funding. Currently CII has no openings, but here are some opportunities:
For Current Students and Recent UIUC Graduates
UIUC is part of a consortium of higher ed institutions called Imagining America (IA) . GSLIS Professor Ann Bishop is UIUC liaison to that group.
Within Imagining America is a program called PAGE fellows (Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellows). Every year, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life invites graduate students in the arts, humanities, and design with a demonstrated interest in public engagement to apply to be PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellows at Imagining America’s national conference. The 2008 conference will be held in Los Angeles Oct 2nd-Oct 4th. Successful PAGE Fellows receive travel expenses and the conference fee is waived. (deadline has passed for 2008)
For more information visit: http://www.imaginingamerica.org/PAGE.html
For the UI Graduate College Assistantship Clearinghouse, go here:
http://www.grad.illinois.edu/clearinghouse/