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Early Graduate Study Fellowship Mentoring Program

June 12-August 30, 2017

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Welcome to GradFund’s Early Graduate Study Felllowship Mentoring Program!

The goal of the program is to help you develop a competitive NSF GRF or Ford Predoctoral fellowship application for the fall 2017 application season. The program will provide you with the tools, structure, and feedback to help you learn the art of proposal writing. During the program, you will work with a dedicated fellowship advising team who will make sure that you stay on track as you develop your funding application. Please explore the site and benefit from all that GradFund offers to help support your proposal writing and application process.

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Mentoring Program Activities

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The Ford Foundation Predoctoral and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship proposal writing tutorials, which include our Prezi and workbooks, will take you step-by-step through the process of writing your funding application and teach you how to break down your application into manageable parts. The workbooks will be the foundational content of our program, and the exercises that they contain will help you develop your application draft.

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During the program, you will complete one blogging exercise that will help you think deeper about your research and its significance. In your post, you will provide us with a story on how you became interested in your research topic. This blog post will help you reflect on your research from a fresh perspective, exercise public writing, and develop your academic persona as you work on your application.

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You will have two individual meetings with your dedicated fellowship advising staff. Meetings will take place in-person or via Skype. The first meeting will take place during the weeks of July 17 and July 24, and will focus on the personal statement and research statement. We will review the writing exercises you completed for the proposal writing workbook as well as the outline of your personal statement. The second meeting will take place during the weeks of August 14 and August 21, and will focus on reviewing your funding plan. Each meeting will give you a chance to receive in-depth feedback on your application materials.

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We will begin and end the program with workshops, one online and asynchronous, and the other in-person. The first workshop, which will take place online on June 12, is designed for you to meet the mentoring program facilitators, and get acquainted with GradFund and the mentoring program. The second workshop, which will take place in-person on August 30, will focus on moving forward with your application, juggling application writing with coursework, and setting goals. You will also have the opportunity to hear from winners of the NSF GRF and Ford Predoctoral Fellowship.

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Mentoring Program Syllabus

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The twelve-week mentoring program will consist of a variety of activities centered around completing your grant or fellowship application. This syllabus and calendar will help you keep track of everything you need to do.

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Week 1: Online Workshop and Welcome (6/12)

– Watch the introductory video to get acquainted with Miya and Dan (the EGFMP facilitators), GradFund in general, and the format of the mentoring program.

– Make a forum post to introduce yourself to the other program participants. In this post, include your name, program, and an interesting fact about yourself. Be sure to read each other’s introductions.

Week 2: Getting to Know Your Funder (6/19)

– Peruse the resource page and Week 1 in the workbook for the award to which you plan to apply.

– In a forum post, provide a summary of the award funder’s goals, due date, and application components.

Week 3: Describing Your Research (6/26)

– For those applying to the Ford, complete Week 2 and 4 in the workbook.

– For those applying to the NSF, complete Week 2 and 3 in the workbook.

– Submit a blog post that describes your research interests, and tells a story about how you got interested in your research topic. Feel free to write as much as you can at this point, but this can also be in bullet point format to help you organize your ideas.

Week 4: Week off for the Holiday (7/3)

– Relax!

Week 5: Developing Your Personal Statement, Pt. 1 (7/10)

– For those applying to the Ford, complete Week 3 in workbook.

– For those applying to the NSF, complete Week 4 in workbook.

– Create an outline of your personal statement and swap with someone else in the group for feedback.

– Schedule an individual meeting with us for either the week of 7/17 or 7/24

Week 6: Seeking Feedback/Individual Meetings (7/17)

– Read Week 5 in Ford and NSF workbooks.

– Send the feedback on your partner’s outline.

– Individual Meeting

Week 7: Developing Your Personal Statement, Pt. 2 (7/24)

– Write the first draft of your personal statement

– Individual meetings

Week 8: Receiving Feedback and Moving Forward with your Draft (7/31)

– Complete Week 6 in Ford and NSF workbooks.

–  You will receive feedback from Miya or Dan on your personal statement.

Week 9: Building a Funding Plan, Pt. 1 (8/7)

– Visit the “Building a Funding Plan” resource page on GradFund’s website, and complete the tutorial.

– After going through this tutorial, you should have a draft of your funding plan.

– Schedule an individual meeting for the week of 8/14 or 8/21

Week 10: Building a Funding Plan Feedback and Individual Meetings (8/14)

– You will receive feedback on your funding plan and advice for moving forward with your application.

Week 11: Individual Meetings (8/21)

– You will receive feedback on your funding plan and advice for moving forward with your application.

Week 12: In-Person Workshop (8/28)

– In our closing workshop, you will gain insight on how to juggle writing applications with coursework, and setting short-,mid-, and long-term goals. This workshop will also feature a panel of students who have won the NSF or Ford. Lunch will be provided.

 

 

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Advice from the Archives

Written by the GradFund fellowship advising team, our blog offers a wealth of advice and guidance on applying for external funding as a graduate student. Here you will find handpicked posts that you can consult as you work towards writing and finalizing your grant or fellowship application. Take a look at our profiled posts below to read about Rutgers graduate students who have secured prestigious external awards, get tips and suggestions from the GradFund fellowship advising team on starting, managing, and finishing grant and fellowship applications, and get to know previous mentoring program participants who have blogged about their research!

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Practicing Public Writing

During the program, you will be contributing to the GradFund blog. This writing exercise aims to help you think deeper about your research and its significance. In your post, you will provide us with a story on how you got interested in your research topic.  This blog post will help you reflect on your research from a fresh perspective, exercise public writing, and develop your academic persona as you work on your application.

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Blog Post #1

In this blog post, we would like you to give us a sense of how you came to do what you do. In other words, how did you develop an interest in your topic? What animates your research? We would like you to tell us this through a story—any story you pick. Maybe you encountered a rare document in the archives, had an ethnographic encounter during your fieldwork, came across a book that changed your life, or had a breakthrough in the lab. Tell us about that story! Your tone does not need to be formal, so please savor the process of writing rather than thinking about formalities. This is your chance to introduce your topic to the broader public, so feel free to be creative!

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Proposal Writing 101 Tutorial

We have developed this tutorial to assist you in the development of your external funding applications. Our tutorial is designed to teach you best practices in proposal development, to understand how to navigate the application process, and to help you with the task of writing a competitive application, including organizing all of the necessary application components.

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Proposal Writing 101 Webinar

Our Prezi is an interactive tool to start learning about the world of external funding and crafting competitive funding applications. In this self-paced webinar, you will learn about getting to know your funder and award, describing your research, and drafting your application essays. At the end of the webinar, you will have developed a plan to start and finish your funding application as well as set your priorities to write a competitive proposal, identified reviewers to give you feedback on your application, and made a plan to revise your application materials.

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Workbook Completion Calendar

We will be working through the workbook content at an accelerated pace in order for you to finish the program with a sample proposal that you can work with. Therefore, we ask that you complete the entire workbook in the first four weeks of the program in the order below. During July, after your first meeting with your fellowship advisor, you will work on bringing together pieces of these exercises and turning them into your proposal draft.

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Proposal Writing 101 Workbook

Once you’ve watched Proposal Writing 101, dive into our extended Proposal Writing Workbook. The workbook will take you step-by-step through the development of an external funding application.

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National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and Ford Predoctoral Fellowship Resource Pages

Our NSF GRFP and Ford Predoctoral Fellowship resource pages will guide you through developing your application essays.

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Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us by using the form below. Our inbox is monitored Monday through Friday, from 9 am to 5 pm, and you can expect to hear from us within 24 hours during business days. If you have a quick question, you can use our online chat function, ‘Ask a Fellowship Advisor.’

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Schedule Your Meeting

You will have two individual meetings, either in-person or via Skype, with your dedicated fellowship advising team. Each meeting will give you a chance to receive in-depth feedback on your application materials.

The first meeting will take place during the weeks of July 17 and July 24, and will focus on the personal statement and research statement. We will review the writing exercises you completed for the proposal writing workbook as well as the outline of your personal statement.

The second meeting will take place during the weeks of August 14 and August 21, and will focus on reviewing your funding plan and discussing strategies for moving forward with your application.

There are also other meetings that you can benefit from throughout the year. To learn more about our meeting types as well as our workshops and mentoring programs, please click here.

Effective May 2017, we are using a new meeting booking system to manage GradFund appointments. Whether you are a new or returning to user of GradFund services, if you have not yet used our new meeting platform, WCOnline, please click on the registration link to set up an account so that you can log into the system.

In order to book your meeting, please visit WCOnline, login, and book an appointment on our summer schedule. If you need assistance with our new platform, please call the GradFund office at 848-932-6546.

Your appointment will require that you submit your application materials in advance of your meeting to give us enough time to prepare for your meeting. Please note that if we have not received your meeting materials two days before your scheduled appointment, your appointment will be cancelled, and you will be asked to reschedule your meeting.

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Workshops

Our program will begin with a virtual, asynchronous workshop designed for you to become acquainted with the peer mentors, GradFund, and the Early Graduate Study Fellowship Mentoring Program. We will conclude this program with an in-person workshop. The workshop will include activities to help you move forward with your application, set goals, and meet with winners of the NSF GRF and Ford Predoctoral Fellowship. Lunch will be provided.

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Wednesday, August 30, 2017
10 am-2 pm
Location TBD

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