FGSR Indigenous Entrance Scholarship
This award is to support Indigenous graduate students at the University of Regina. Holders of these awards are required to be a fully qualified student in a Master's or Doctoral degree program at the University of Regina. Students must also be an entering student (be in their first semester). EMBA (Levene), MHIM (CS) & MHA (JSGS) students are not eligible for this scholarship.
Eligibility
In Good Standing – Students must hold and maintain a minimum 70% average. An incomplete and/or failing grade from a previous semester's work will render the student ineligible for support. Failure to continue to be fully eligible each semester while holding this scholarship, will require the scholarship to be discontinued. Preference will be given to students with a higher incoming GPA.
Required – Grad Thrive Plus 800AA must be completed by the end of the first semester in which a student begins their program, in order to be eligible. Failure to complete this by the end of their first semester will require the scholarship to be discontinued.
Registered full time or part time – Recipients of the FGSR Indigenous Entrance Scholarship are required to be registered in the semester in which the funding is to be received and, accordingly, are required to register in no fewer than three credit hours of course or thesis work pertaining to their program during the corresponding semester. All awardees are required to be registered by the fifth day of the first month (January, May, or September) of the semester in which the award is to be paid, in order to meet payroll deadlines.
Program Changes – If a student wishes to change their route or program, the effected departments and faculty must agree on graduate funding. Notification must be made to FGSR at the time of that change.
Other Awards – FGSR Indigenous Entrance Scholarship students may only hold other funding up to a maximum of $10,000. This includes but is not limited to internal University of Regina scholarships, foreign scholarships, FGSR funding and foreign government funding. It is up to the discretion of FGSR to approve any ‘Other’ funding. Exception: Students are allowed to apply for and hold travel awards. ‘Other Awards’ does not include Band Funding.
Employment – There is no restriction on employment while holding this scholarship.
Please see the Terms of Reference for full information.
Application Information
Rates of Support/Duration: The FGSR Indigenous Entrance Scholarship is a one year, non-renewable scholarship. The value varies from $3,000 to $16,000 over the course of three semesters for tuition and associated fees only. The amounts will be determined by FGSR. The scholarship will be paid out over the course of three semesters (no more than 6 credit hours each semester), directly to the students’ University of Regina student account, to cover tuition and associated fees.
Applications by students are not required or accepted to FGSR. Nominations for this award are made by each faculty, to FGSR.
All FGSR Funding is subject to annual budgetary approval and up to the discretion of the Dean of FGSR.
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NO APPLICATION REQUIRED. It is the responsibility of each Faculty to nominate their fully qualified Indigenous students, based on the student’s self-declaration on their application to FGSR, and providing the student is fully eligible, as described in this Terms of Reference.
At time of accepting a student for admission, the faculty will submit the ranking spreadsheet (provided
by FGSR) to FGSR. Faculties must rank their students (ex. # 1-10) when they nominate them to FGSR,
based on academic standing and leadership.