1. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Science & Engineering New Faculty Orientation New Faculty Orientation 2009 Graduate Student Appointments

2. Graduate Students - Recruiting Graduate students apply directly to a department.  Departments establish their own admission standards  Office of Research and Graduate Studies provides guidelines to the departments Departments have  A graduate committee to  review and approve graduate applications  issue offer letters and accept financial responsibility for each student  A staff graduate coordinator to process graduate student appointments ____________________________________________________________________________________ Science & Engineering New Faculty Orientation

3. Graduate Students - Recruitment Opportunities The Office of Graduate Studies and the Dean’s Office provide limited funds to departments to recruit graduate students. Initiatives for Graduate Student Recruiting The Office of Graduate Studies offers Initiatives for Graduate Student Recruiting to departments. These are funded on a competitive basis and proposals that seek to enhance the recruitment of well qualified under- represented minority domestic students are particularly encouraged. Requests for proposals are announced in August for the next recruiting year. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Science & Engineering New Faculty Orientation

4. Graduate Students - Types Fellows - are supported solely for the furtherance of their education; no work assignment required Research Assistants - assist faculty on research projects (whether or not the stipend is provided by a research grant); work is required Teaching Assistants - provide services in support of teaching activities; work is required Graduate student categories are determined by what the student does, not how the student is paid. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Science & Engineering New Faculty Orientation

5. Graduate Students - Financial Support Departments receive limited stipend funds usually for first year students. Candidates are matched with an advisor at the end of the first year. The advisor is normally then responsible for the stipend support of the student. Teaching Assistantships are available in some departments for assisting in courses, or leading recitation sessions. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Science & Engineering New Faculty Orientation

6. Graduate Students - Travel Support The S/E Deans’ Offices receive a small budget directed towards graduate student travel. Natural Sciences disburses funds directly from the Dean’s Office. Engineering allocates funds to each department. Please contact your department for appropriate processing. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Science & Engineering New Faculty Orientation

7. Graduate Students - Resources Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies http://graduate.rice.edu/Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Graduate Student Association (GSA) http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~gsa/ http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~gsa/ Office of International Students and Scholars http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ois/main.html http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ois/main.html Career Services http://careers.rice.edu/ http://careers.rice.edu/ Valhalla - the Graduate Student Lounge http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bifrost/ http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bifrost/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Science & Engineering New Faculty Orientation