University of Hawaii Department of Linguistics.

Graduate student funding information

Finanical information for international students from International Student Services
There are restrictions about when, where, and how much foreign students can work. You can find information from International Student Services which has a web site at www.hawaii.edu/osa/ISS.html or at www.hawaii.edu/issmanoa/ under Regulations. If you have specific questions, you could send an email to Martha Staff, who is an advisor at ISS. Her email is: mstaff@hawaii.edu

Teaching

At UH

Aside from being assigned as Teaching Assistants in the Linguistics Department, some students find work teaching language classes in other departments, such as teaching Spanish or French 101 for the department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, Arabic, Tagalog or other languages in the department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, etc. The language departments should be contacted directly for information about the availability of teaching positions.

At other local universities

There a great deal of part-time teaching work available at other local colleges and universities, like Chaminade University (http://www.chaminade.edu/), Hawaii Pacific University (http://web1.hpu.edu/), or the community colleges, like Kapiolani Community College or Honolulu Community College, among others (a full list is available at: http://www.hawaii.edu/welcome/campusmap.html). Ordinarily a student needs to already hold an M.A. degree, but this is not always true. If a student is willing to work as a remedial writing teacher for HPU, jobs are available with just a B.A. degree. Of course, it is somewhat harder to go to school while carrying a heavy teaching load, but it is quite possible. Some students may teach as many as 3-4 courses a term, while carrying a load of 3-4 graduate courses, so it's possible to proceed at this rate, and still maintain a reasonable GPA. These part-time courses typically pay about $1200 per quarter, with a quarter lasting about 10 weeks. Since there is sometimes up to a two week break between quarters, a student would need to plan on bringing in about $1200 every 12 weeks for each course taught. A big advantage of this type of work is that many courses can be taught in the evening, leaving the day open for class scheduling. Most students, who have no dependents should find the teaching income adequate to meet their living and tuition expenses. One student suggests that ideally, a student should try to get teaching work with more than one university, since each university has a ceiling on the number of courses which can be taught each year by part-time faculty. The typical ceiling is only 5 courses per year, so to maintain an adequate teaching load, the student should try to get jobs with at least two different universities.

Other teaching options

It's also possible to find teaching work in other venues. For example, one student's recent summer plans include: tutoring Japanese on campus for students from Japanese classes; teaching at a Japanese language school outside the campus (both during semester and vacation); teaching for summer intensive language courses in Japan, or in the US. This student mentions that the last option is tough to get in unless you have some special training the program requires, teaching experience plus some connection, but that some programs pay your plane tickets. The local language schools can also offer some clerical work as well, such as typing up documents in a foreign language.

Other kinds of work

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, who are the people who publish "Language and Linguistics Behaviorial Abstracts" (LLBA), periodically advertise for freelance abstract writers on the Linguist List (note that you need to be able to legally work in the U.S. to do this).

Students also hold jobs in the community doing clerical work, waiting on tables in restaurants, being a hotel concierge, clerking in stores, tutoring, etc.

Loans

Stafford Loans are available through the UH financial aid office (http://www.hawaii.edu/fas/)

Grants and Fellowships

UH-internal sources of funding

The Graduate division has a good list of funding sources available to graduate students: http://www.hawaii.edu/graduate/financial/html/tuition.htm Information Technology Services also provide computer-assisted scholarship help at the following adress: http://dbserver.its.hawaii.edu/cash/

Below, we also list some that Linguistics Students have successfully gotten.

The Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity office (SEED) has a number of scholarships available: http://www.hawaii.edu/diversity/index.html

The Arts & Sciences Advisory Council provide funding which linguistics students have obtained. Full-time upper division undergraduates with a declared arts and sciences major and classified graduate students pursuing a degree in arts and sciences at UHM may apply for the Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Awards. The awards are intended to fund scholarly projects of significant educational value and not available through regular coursework. Projects may include travel. Amounts may be up to $2,000 and the numbers of awards vary. For an application, contact the Office of Community and Alumni Relations, Colleges of Arts and Sciences, UHM, 1601 East-West Road, Burns Hall 4021, Honolulu, HI 96848, phone (808)944-7773. The Department of Linguistics Endowment Fund makes an award of $500 twice per year for research activities. The application is available in the Linguistics Department office. The Graduate Student Organization (http://www.hawaii.edu/gso/) makes travel awards to students. The East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship Program (http://www.eastwestcenter.org/semedu- program.asp?program_ID=1&Topic=Student&Area=Education) can provide funding for tuition and housing for selected students.

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships East Asia (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Southeast Asia (Cambodian, IIokano, Indonesian, Lao, Tagalog, Thai, and Indonesian) Pacific Islands (Samoan and Tahitian) Applicants must be: (1) US Citizens or permanent residents, (2) Classified graduate students, (3) Enrolled in a program combining area/professional studies and modern foreign language training Pick up application in Moore 321 or print out application at: www.shaps.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/aid_grad.shtml

Resources outside UH

The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange offers a variety of final support in the American Region: 1.Research Grants 2.Grants for Assistant, Associate and Full Professors 3.Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants 4.Subsidies for Publication 5.CCK Fellowships for Ph.D. Dissertations and Post- doctoral Grants 6.Walter Judd Fellowship 7.Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad 8.Travel Grants 9.Visiting Fellowship For more information, click on the following link: http://www.cckf.org/e-dornation.htm

URLs for foundations & agencies found when researching fieldwork funding: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (Linguistics) http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/ling/disserts.htm

Social Sciences Research Council: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/

Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grants: http://www.wennergren.org/programsirg.html#fieldwork ##