As a graduate student at EALC, you’ll have a variety of financial support options to choose from and pursue. Our graduate students find support through fellowships, grants, and student academic appointments (SAAs), as well as student loans. See below for information on some of the most common funding opportunities that help our graduate students to pursue their interests.
EALC currently offers five-year PhD fellowship packages, which include two years of fellowships and three years of assistantships. These packages are awarded to the top PhD applicants on a competitive basis. The funding typically includes tuition remission and a living stipend.
The Gines Graduate EALC Fellowship seeks to support graduate students who are pursuing a Master's degree within the EALC Department of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, such as the:
or graduate students wishing to complete a minor in EALC, in combination with a major in a professional field of study.
Recipients will be students:
Preference will be given to students who are residents of either Indiana or New Jersey.
Graduate students in East Asian Languages and Cultures and other IU graduate programs may apply for associate instructor (AI) positions in EALC. Most EALC AI positions are available in the language programs, though there are a few exceptions. Language AIs lead drill sections in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean classes. There are also a limited number of AI positions available teaching discussion sections for large 100-level EALC lecture classes (e.g., EALC-E100; EALC-E110). The department gives hiring priority to graduate students in EALC, but we occasionally hire graduate students from other departments.
Full AI positions (teaching 2 sections in a semester/20 hours/week) pay a monthly stipend and include tuition remission at the rate of 100% of College of Arts and Sciences tuition for up to 12 credits a semester. Half-time AI positions (10 hours/week) are paid a stipend, but do not receive a tuition remission.
Applicants to EALC graduate programs: All new graduate program applications are considered for AI-ship funding as well as for admission. Applicants interested in being considered for AI-ships should be certain to complete the “Departmental Questions” portion of the graduate application.
Continuing IU students and applicants to other IU programs: Applications for AI-ships must be submitted for each academic year and are due February 17th for the following academic year. Applicants must submit the following for a complete application:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS: The IU Dean of the Faculties requires all non-native speakers of English to take and pass the Test of English Proficiency for Associate Instructor Candidates (TEPAIC). ONLY those students who have taken and passed TEPAIC are allowed to teach. All international students applying for an AI position in EALC should carefully review the TEPAIC website and information below. Please be aware that inability to pass this test can result in the revocation of an AI offer.
TEPAIC Testing Guidelines for prospective EALC AIs
In order to teach at Indiana University, all non-native speakers of English must take and pass the Test of English Proficiency for International Assistant Instructor Candidates (TEPAIC). This test is administered by the Department of Second Language Studies (SLS) and complete information on the test is available on their website. The test is officially offered in early January, mid Spring, late August, and mid Fall. It is very important for AI applicants to East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC) to understand that if they are unable to pass this test, any previous offers of an AI position in EALC will be revoked.
Registration for the test:
For currently enrolled IU Graduate Students: Students wishing to take the TEPAIC must be recommended for the test by the department that they wish to teach in. If you plan to apply for an AI position with EALC and have not taken the TEPAIC, you must first see the language coordinator for the language that you wish to teach. That faculty member will make a decision as to whether EALC will request that you be allowed to test. If you are approved to take the test, EALC will report your basic information (Name, Student ID number, TOEFL score) to Second Language Studies so that you will be able to register for the test. You will then need to register in person at SLS in the two-week period prior to the test. You can find the test date and sign-up schedule here. At the time that you register, you will be given a test time and more information on the test.
For incoming EALC graduate students: New international students who have been offered an AI position with EALC must be able to take and pass the TEPAIC in order to keep their AI-ship. It is important to remember that the TEPAIC is a different test than the English test given to all incoming international students. Both exams must be taken very seriously. HLS/EALC will request test registration and test times for incoming AIs for the August test dates. We will only do this for students who are new to Indiana University. Other students must see SLS in the two weeks before the test to set their own test time.
HLS/EALC will receive the test times and testing information from SLS and will distribute it to incoming AIs after they arrive on campus. It is very important that you check with the HLS Graduate Services team if you do not receive your test time.
After the test:
On the test date, it is important that you show up on time and prepared. During the night or morning following your test, you will receive an e-mail from Second Language Studies with your test results. That message will be copied to EALC so that we receive it at the same time that you do. Students who pass the test with a designation of C1, C2, or C3 will be allowed to teach in EALC. Students who receive a designation of NC4 have not passed the test, but may be eligible for an appeal exam. If you qualify for an appeal, then information about registering for and taking the appeal exam will be sent to you when you receive your test results. At the lowest level, designation NC5, students are not eligible to appeal and will need to wait to take the test again the next time it is offered. Students with an NC4 who cannot pass the appeal exam, and students with an NC5 are not permitted to teach and any AI-ship offers made must be revoked per university policy. All AI applicants are encouraged to carefully review all of the information on the TEPAIC on the SLS website.
This departmental grant-in-aid award is intended to provide EALC graduate students one-time support for unusual expenses that cannot be fully funded by other sources. Graduate students may receive up to $2,000 to cover the costs of activities, including research and training, necessary for their progress towards degree completion. Travel to conferences, routine supplies, and computers, for example, do not count as unusual expenses and are not supported by this award. Collaborative projects between faculty and graduate students are also not eligible for funding.
Priority will be given to applicants (1) applying for the first time and (2) who either secured partial funding from elsewhere or submit proof of an unsuccessful attempt to secure funding from elsewhere.
Materials to submit:
Criteria for selection:
1. quality of proposed research
2. quality of research accomplishments to date
3. timely progress toward the graduate degree
Application deadline
The deadline to apply is April 21, 2024. Submit all materials electronically to EALC@iu.edu as a single PDF file. Successful applicants will be informed of their selection by the end of the current academic year.
The Graduate Office of the College of Arts & Sciences offers a number of fellowships to incoming and continuing graduate students. Follow the links below for information on each fellowship. Additional information can also be found on the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Office website.
Graduate students at Indiana University who are citizens, nationals, or permanent residents of the United States can apply for a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. FLAS Fellowships in Chinese, Japanese or Korean are offered by the East Asian Studies Center (EASC) and the Center for the Study of Global Change. Students should refer to the above links for application information.
The following is a list of graduate fellowships and awards administered by the University Graduate School. Follow the links below for information on each fellowship. More information can also be found on the University Graduate School website.
The East Asian Studies Center (EASC) offers a Korean studies graduate fellowship funded by the Society of Friends of Korean Studies (SOFOKS). Students wishing to apply should see the EASC web page for application information.
Applications are open to entering and continuing students.
The Graduate School GradGrants Center provides information and training to IU graduate students about how to apply for and receive grants.
Grad Grants Center
IUB Herman B Wells Library
Research Collection, Room 651
1320 E. Tenth St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
Phone: 812-855-5281
E-mail: gradgrnt@iu.edu
The following is a list of fellowships, grants, and awards that you may be eligible for. These awards are external, so you must apply to them on your own. Check on the web for details on the award, application, and deadline for each.
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