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Include Graduate Research Assistants/Doctoral Research Assistants in your grant proposals! 

One of the questionnaire topics in the grant submission process in Kuali asks some questions about whether the grant project will employ graduate/doctoral assistants. There’s a reason for that – graduate students can play a meaningful role in an overall grant project team and can provide key support in a wide range of project aspects. Importantly, writing graduate research assistants into a grant proposal provides students with funding, support, and excellent research experiences in their discipline, which is especially important if there is a shortage of university-provided assistantships.                  

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    • See information on The Graduate College’s Assistantship web page for full information. Some of the parameters to keep in mind:
    • For out-of-state students, an assistantship allows eligibility for in-state tuition
    • While the assistantship pays a stipend, tuition is not waived and students must still pay tuition out of those (or other) funds
    • There is a variety of assistantship positions, depending on the focus of the role in the project, including graduate/doctoral research assistant and graduate/doctoral assistant
    • Students holding assistantships must be enrolled as a full-time student
    • Faculty & Academic Resources has a useful FAQ that centers on research assistants
    • The Graduate College has a useful Graduate Assistant Eligibility Overview and Checklist that incorporates information important to the hiring of graduate assistants. 
    • The Graduate College’s Graduate Assistantships webpage is a key information source. 
    • UPPS 07.07.06 has important information about graduate student employment.             

  • The following information is from a July 31, 2025 email from Dr. Shreek Mandayam, Vice President for Research, providing information about a new incentive program for doctoral research assistants supported by external funding; information is also found on the Division of Research website:

    The Doctoral Research Assistant Tuition Incentive Program is a new initiative from the Division of Research launching in Fall 2025.  This incentive aims to support research doctoral programs by increasing doctoral student enrollment and supporting faculty in securing external funding that includes graduate research assistant support. Furthermore, this follows a recommendation by the Presidential Commission on the Run to R1 to bring TXST in conformity with the best research doctoral programs in the nation.

    Program Highlights

    To qualify, doctoral students must hold a graduate research assistant appointment with a minimum annual salary of $30,000 funded by external awards (this amount will increase in the future). The Division of Research will provide tuition support for up to 21 credit hours per academic year—allocated as 9 hours in Fall, 9 in Spring, and 3 in Summer, for a total of 3 years.

    How It Works

    To minimize administrative burden on our faculty Principal Investigators (PIs), the Office of Sponsored Programs will identify students who meet the program’s eligibility requirements and will notify the PIs of qualifying appointments. Tuition coverage requests will then be submitted for all eligible students, and PIs will receive confirmation once tuition payments have been processed.

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