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Application deadlines for most forms of financial aid originating in the departments, the University, or elsewhere are in January and February. Teaching assistantships and fellowships are departmentally initiated and require careful study of prospective students' files.
While the Department supports some continuing students, only a few research assistantships or tuition waivers are available through our department for first year students. Thus, although it is possible to receive a fellowship for the first year, incoming graduate students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents are encouraged to apply early for financial aid through the Graduate School and the University Financial Aid Office. Entering students are encouraged to apply for national fellowships as well. (See below .) Entering students are automatically considered for first year support.
International students, unless they are permanent residents, are not eligible for federal or state financial aid.
They are, however, eligible for many of the teaching assistantships and scholarships discussed in the following sections.
International students should not rely upon receiving financial assistance as a means of support for their first year here.
University policy demands that an international student be fully funded (and able to show their source of support) before being admitted to the university.
Also, once here, new students cannot apply for permission to work during their first year of study except in cases of extreme emergency.
The Immigration Service limits the amount of part-time work foreign students may do even when permission is granted.
The International Services Office conducts an orientation each year for newly enrolled international students and is available to enrolled students for consultation.
Financial aid may be available to minority students through the University of Washington, Office of Minority Affairs, Box 355845, Seattle, WA 98195-5845 or contact them by email at askoma@u.washington.edu. For more information on financial aid, write the University of Washington, Financial Aid Office, Box 355880, Seattle, WA 98195-5880 or contact them by email at osfa@u.washington.edu.
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Federal and State Aid
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The University of Washington Office of Student Financial Aid has information on a variety of types of aid for United States citizens and permanent residents, including tuition exemptions, graduate student work study, and loans.
To qualify for these funds, it is necessary to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) before the annual priority date.
This should be mailed by February 15 and received and date-stamped by the processor on or before February 28.
For those who do not qualify for need-based aid, the Federal Direct Loan Program offers subsidized and unsubsidized direct loans.
Contact the Financial Aid Office for information.
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Teaching Assistantships in Linguistics
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A few teaching assistantships (TA ships) are available in the Department to continuing students only.
Download: Linguistics TA Application 
Download: Evaluation Criteria for TAs
Download: Evaluation of Graduate Student Progress
Download: TA Training Activities
1. In mid-February the Chair announces that applications for TAships in Linguistics will be accepted until a date in early March.
Graduate students wishing to apply fill out an application and furnish materials supporting their candidacy (e.g. student evals).
Applicants may append a recent paper or conference handout.
2. Applicants are selected on the basis of academic excellence (including but not limited to GPA, courses taken, faculty recommendations), quality of research papers, normal progress (as defined in deparmental guidelines), teaching excellence (as determined by the evaluations in the student's appointment file, or by promise of teaching ability in the case of novices), and by equitable distribution of the limited resources (taking into consideration previous support).
Due to the limited number of TA positions in Linguistics, there is no guarantee of reappointment even though the candidate may have shown successful performance in previous TA assignments.
3. After examining the applications, in early March the faculty meet as a committee of the whole to select TAs for the following academic year.
4. The faculty empower the Chair to fill vacancies as they arise based on the alternate list.
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Teaching Assistantships in Other Departments
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Assistantships are also sometimes available through other departments, particularly in the English Department and the foreign language departments.
Although normally awarded to advanced students, they may be given to incoming students of exceptional experience or qualification.
Native speakers of languages taught at the University of Washington are strongly encouraged to teach their language in the relevant department.
The applicant should inquire with the language department, and keep the Linguistics Department informed.
The deadline for application for a teaching assistantship in many departments is in January.
Applicants able to teach Spanish, French, Italian, or Portuguese should send to the Linguistics Department supplemental Romance language teaching assistant application materials, described in the page on Teaching Assistantships in Romance Languages.
The UW Linguistics Department can recommend to the UW Department of Romance Languages and Literature that an applicant be considered for a position teaching Romance languages.
If you are applying to the General Linguistics or Romance Linguistics
Program and feel you are qualified to teach a Romance language, you may
download an assistantship application from the UW Graduate School's forms
page and return it by mail with your application to
the Linguistics Department, as described below.
Stipend and Duties: Teaching Assistants receive a monthly stipend for each of the nine months of the academic year. (This sum is paid in halves, on the tenth and twenty-fifth days of the month, from October 10 to June 25.) Teaching Assistants are exempted from paying University tuition charges except for an operating fee of approximately $210 per academic quarter. Teaching Assistants are expected to carry a minimum study program of ten applicable credit hours each quarter except Summer Quarter, when teaching assistants are only required to register for two credits.
The UW Graduate School web pages show current stipend amounts in Schedule
#1 of the Graduate
Student Service Appointment Salary Schedule and the operating fee
amount in the General
Information
about Graduate Student Service Appointments web page.
Teaching Assistants' principal service to the University is to teach, under the supervision of a faculty member, one elementary language class of about 24 students, meeting five hours each week. Teaching Assistants are given instruction at the beginning of the year and other advice and assistance as needed; supervisors and Teaching Assistants meet periodically for discussion of relevant problems.
Teaching Assistants' duties, including class preparation, correction of papers and quizzes, office hours and meetings, amount to approximately twenty hours each week.
Eligibility and Renewal: Eligibility is dependent on admission to the Graduate School and acceptability to the language teaching division as a teacher of Spanish, French, Italian, or Portuguese. Within the limits of financial possibility and subject to certain conditions, the most important of which are maintaining satisfactory progress toward a degree and demonstrating competence as classroom teachers, Teaching Assistants holding regular appointments will normally be reappointed annually for the full term of their eligibility (six quarters for M. A. students, nine additional for Ph.D. students).
Training: All newly appointed Teaching Assistants attend a training program that prepares them for their teaching assignments. New and returning appointees must be present for a required planning and training period and will be notified in writing when that training begins (usually mid-September). Training will include lectures by the faculty, filmed and live demonstrations of college language courses, practice readings, and the preparation of teaching and testing materials. Additionally, international students are required to attend the International Teaching Assistant (ITA) program which covers cross-cultural communication, teaching strategies, and second language practice.
Health Benefits: Teaching Assistants are eligible for the medical, dental and vision benefits provided by the University of Washington Graduate Appointee Insurance Plan.
The health benefit provides full payment of Student Only coverage and 50% of the increment cost of coverage of spouse and/or children.
A full description of the specific benefits for the current year may be found on the UW Graduate School TA/RA/SA insurance page.
Benefits are usually similar from year to year.
Application: In addition to your application to the Romance Linguistics or General Linguistics program, return your completed assistantship application with the following supporting documents required by the Romance language programs as early as possible.
- A one or two page academic autobiographical statement composed by you in the Romance language of your major, presenting information you think relevant to your application. Specify the objectives of your graduate study, including the degree(s) you plan to seek and your professional aspirations. (Title IX of the U. S. Education Act of 1972 prohibits discrimination in admission on the basis of marital and parental status; therefore, we ask you not to mention these in your application.)
- A recording of you reading the autobiographical statement, together with any other informal comments you wish to make.
- A sample of your work in some area of Romance languages and literature; this may be a copy of a paper written by you for a course in the area of your major.
Deadline: To insure consideration for a Teaching Assistant appointment, see that your entire application reaches us by January 15.
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Fellowships, Scholarships, Grants and Other Funding
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A limited number of fellowships, traineeships and scholarships are available through the Graduate School to outstanding students in all fields of study leading to advanced degrees.
Information regarding application procedures may be obtained by writing to the University of Washington, Graduate Fellowship and Assistantship Division, Box 351240, Seattle, WA 98195-1240.
The Graduate Fellowship Calendar lists specific programs and eligibility requirements.
Nominations for most of these awards must come from the chairs of departments.
The University is eligible for Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (formerly National Resource Fellowships and Defense Education Act Title VI Fellowships) for graduate students who are studying critical languages (these fellowships are limited to students who are citizens of the United States or have permanent resident status).
In the past, students in the Department of Linguistics have received such fellowships for study in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Tibetan, Hindi, and Vietnamese. Application for FLAS Fellowships is made through the Jackson School of International Studies Office of Student Services.
Box 353650, Seattle, WA 98195-3650
Phone: (206) 543-6001
Fax: (206) 616-3170
Email: jsisinfo@u.washington.edu
Download: FLAS information
Other sources of information on fellowships, grants, internships and award opportunities can be found in the UW Graduate Fellowship and Assistantship Division's web page which talks about financial support, fellowships, and assistantships.
Further information about grants and other funding is available from the UW's Grant and Funding Information Service:
Box 352900, Seattle, WA 98195-2900
Phone: (206) 616-3083
Email: gfis@u.washington.edu
The Department regularly recommends one or two first-year graduate students for Graduate School research assistantships and tuition waivers (sometimes included is a second and third year teaching assistantship contingent on satisfactory progress), but this is done without any special application being made by the students.
One or two of each type are usually awarded to the Linguistics Department per year.
Another source of information is the National Science Foundation Research Fellowships, Graduate Fellowships, and Minority Graduate Fellowships web page.
:
Jacob Javits Fellowship
Graduate study and research
Eligibility: Eligibility is limited to individuals who at the time of application have not yet completed their first year of graduate study (for the purposes of this program, 'graduate study' refers to any post-undergraduate study) or will be entering graduate school in the next academic year. Twenty percent of the fellowships shall be awarded in the social sciences, twenty percent in the arts, and sixty percent in the humanities. A minimum of sixty percent of the awards shall be made to students who have no graduate credits. Eligibility is limited to U.S. citizens or nationals, permanent residents of the U.S., or citizens of any one of the Freely Associated States.
University of Washington Financial Support Page
Linguist List Financial Support Page
UCLA GRAPES Financial Support Database
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Research Assistantships
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Faculty members occasionally have short-term grants obtained outside our department, which may provide for research assistantships. These are rarely given to incoming students.
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