How Do I Pay For It?

 

Assistantship and Financial Aid options

 

Assistantships

 

Graduate assistantships are available to qualified students and are awarded on a competitive basis. Stipends are approximately $12,000 and include a partial or full waiver of tuition. The program particularly encourages applications from minority students.

Generally students work as either research or teaching assistants for individual faculty members within the department.  However some have assignments working for special projects or work outside the department.  We currently have students working as graduate assistants at the Kentucky Museum and at Mammoth Cave National Park.

We begin to make assistantship offers in March.  In order to receive full consideration for an assistantship, we recommend that you have your application be submitted by this time.  We also ask that you send a writing sample directly to the department head.  This may be a statement of your interest in the program, an undergraduate paper, or a piece of professional writing.

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.  For a list of participating states, click here.

 

Click here for the Graduate assistantship application, or here to learn more about the assistantship program.

 

For other sources of financial assistance, please click here.

 

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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

 

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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)
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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

 

 

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