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General Information
All departmental aid decisions are made by the department concerned. Applicants should be aware that departmental assistantships and scholarships are limited. Second-year students who have had a chance to demonstrate their abilities to their department may be given preference for these awards in some programs. Official notification of awards is provided in writing from the M Center. Please note that there is no institutional financial assistance available for work toward the biochemistry and molecular biology certificate, nor for students who are taking the prerequisite courses for the MBA and the MPP programs at the reduced course rate.
Departmental aid (alumnae scholarships, assistantships and named scholarships listed below) decisions are made by the individual programs. Please contact the individual departments regarding specific requirements for these awards.
Departmental Assistantships
Most graduate programs have a small number of assistantships awarded to select students on a competitive basis. Graduate assistants serve their department for a minimum of 12 and normally not more than 20 hours per week for a full assistantship. The work each student performs depends on specific departmental needs, academic programs, and the student's areas of expertise. Assistants may help tutor or coach undergraduates and serve as assistants to faculty, as laboratory and audio-visual assistants, or as teachers in the Children's School. The full graduate assistantship provides one-half tuition credit and a stipend, which is taxable income. Some departments require a departmental assistantship application. Many graduate departments choose to select second-year graduate students with whose work and needs they are more familiar. However, the individual academic departments are under no obligation to award or guarantee an award to any student.
Alumnae Tuition Scholarships
These graduate student scholarships were originally funded from donations by Mills alumnae. These scholarships are awarded based on criteria determined by each academic department.
Art Department
In addition to the departmental assistantships, the Art Department offers the following named awards: the Catherine Morgan Trefethen Fellowship, the Sara Lewis Graduate Fellowship, and the Nell Sinton Scholarship. In addition, the Evelyn V. Staton Fellowship in Fine Arts provides a scholarship for graduate work of African American students studying art or music.
English Department
In addition to the departmental assistantships and alumnae scholarships, the English Department awards the Mary Baty Gossage Graduate Fellowship in English, established in 1977 in memory of Mary Gossage, to the best graduate candidate for the year. Also, the Marion Hood Boess Haworth Endowment for Children's Literature was established in 1983 by Mills alumna Marjorie Haworth '42 for the purposes of encouraging and supporting the creation of high-quality literature for children.
Music Department
The Elizabeth Mills Crothers Fellowship in Music, founded in 1923 by Mrs. William H. Mills as a memorial to her daughter, is awarded annually to a candidate for the degree of master of arts or master of fine arts who shows unusual creative ability in music. The Robert Maas Memorial Scholarship for students of violoncello and the Antonia Menaglia Scholarship for students of piano are awarded to candidates for the master of fine arts degree in music performance and literature. The Evelyn V. Staton Fellowship in Fine Arts provides scholarships for graduate work of African American students studying music or art.
Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Certificate Program
Students entering the program are not eligible to apply for teaching assistantships in biology, chemistry, or physics until they have completed a full academic year at Mills. A small amount of alumnae scholarship aid is available to students entering the program. Students completing the program and entering medical school are eligible to receive Scheffler Pre-Medical Science Scholarships. Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of merit by a faculty committee.
School of Education
The School of Education offers the Laura Lang Balas Fellowship, established in 2002, and the Evelyn K. Oremland Graduate Fellowship, established in 2002, to provide financial assistance for graduate students in education with an emphasis in child life in hospitals. Industry scholarships are available to teacher credential candidates for full or partial tuition remission. The Holland Early Childhood Graduate Fellowship was established in 2004 to provide financial assistance for graduate students in education with an emphasis in early childhood education. Information regarding scholarship opportunities may be obtained through the School of Education. Please also refer to California State Funding Opportunities for more information on funding sources available to teacher credential candidates.
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