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Assistantships | Minority Assistantship Program | Academic Common Market Program
Assistantships
Graduate assistantships are available to qualified students and are awarded on a competitive basis. Stipends range from $9,000 to $10,000 a year and include a waiver of out-of-state fees. The program particularly encourages applications from minority students.
Residents of the southeastern United States are also eligible for waiver of out-of-state tuition costs through the Southern Academic Common Market. Information regarding this program is available upon request.
Click here for the Graduate assistantship application, or here to learn more.
Minority Assistantship Program
Consistent with the Commonwealth of Kentucky's desegregation plan, the University is committed to raising the proportion of African American Kentuckian residents receiving graduate degrees. Graduate assistantships are available to Kentucky resident minority students through this program.
You can download more information about the program and its requirements here
Participating Academic Common Market States for Folk Studies
The idea for the Academic Common Market is simple and its impact considerable. The Academic Common Market allows a student to enroll in an undergraduate or graduate program in another state without having to pay out-of-state tuition if that university offers a program of study not offered by the public institutions in the student's home state. ( From the SREB website: for more information click here)
If your home state is a member of the Academic Common Market, please contact the people/institutions listed below.
Alabama
Paul B. Mohr, Sr.
Director of Special Programs
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
PO Box 302000
Montgomery, Alabama 36130-2000
(334) 242-2209
FAX (334) 242-0270
e-mail: pmohr@ache.state.al.us
Georgia
Deborah Sullivan
State Coordinator for the Academic Common Market
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
270 Washington Street, S.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30334-1450
(404) 656-0765
FAX (404) 651-5190
e-mail: Deborah.Sullivan@usg.edu
Louisiana
Mary Lou Potter
Coordinator of Program Review and Academic Projects
Acting ACM Coordinator for Louisiana
Louisiana Board of Regents
1201 N Third Street, Suite 6-200
P.O. Box 3677
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70821-3677
(225) 342-4253
FAX (225) 342-6926
e-mail: mpotter@regents.state.la.us
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Maryland
Dominique Raymond
State Coordinator, Academic Common Market
Maryland Higher Education Commission
839 Bestgate Road, Suite 400
Annapolis, Maryland 21401-3013
Phone (410) 260-4585
FAX (410) 260-3200
e-mail: draymond@mhec.state.md.us
Mississippi
Pearl Pennington
Director of Academic Student Affairs and Off-Campus Programming
Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning
3825 Ridgewood Road
Jackson, Mississippi 39211
(601) 432-6611
FAX (601) 432-6978
e-mail: pearl@ihl.state.ms.us
South Carolina
Gail M. Morrison
Director of Academic Affairs and Licensing Commission on Higher Education
1333 Main Street, Suite 200
Columbia, South Carolina 29201
(803) 737-2260
FAX (803) 737-2297
e-mail: GMORISSO@CHE400.STATE.SC.US
e-mail: JBIGA@CHE400.STATE.SC.US
(JoAnn Biga, Administrative Coordinator)
website
Tennessee
Linda Bradley
Academic Common Market Coordinator
Tennessee Higher Education Commission
Parkway Towers, Suite 1900
404 James Robertson Parkway
Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0830
(615) 741-3605
FAX (615) 741-6230
e-mail: Linda.Bradley@State.TN.US
Virginia
Elizabeth Waddy
Academic Common Market
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
James Monroe Building
101 North Fourteenth Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
(804) 225-2632
FAX (804) 225-2604
e-mail: waddy@schev.edu
West Virginia
Mark W. Stotler
Program Review and Planning Coordinator
State College and University Systems of West Virginia
1018 Kanawha Boulevard, East
Suite 700
Charleston, West Virginia 25301-2827
(304) 558-0262
FAX (304) 558-1646
e-mail: stotler@hepc.wvnet.edu
