The Porter Executive Committee invites graduate students who have demonstrated research interests in fields directly related to the arts to join Porter College as Associate (non-voting) Fellows. While service to undergraduate students remains the top priority of the College, we seek to support eligible graduate students in ways that enrich the educational experience of all affiliated students, staff, and faculty.

Eligible graduate students include any graduate student enrolled in any post-graduate degree or certificate program in a department or program administered by the Arts Division.

Process:

Arts Division Departments/Programs are asked to send a list of currently enrolled graduate students each fall term. Interested graduate students should email Porter College Provost Assistant Susan Beach at porterprovost@ucsc.edu before the end of fall term requesting affiliation.

Graduate Student Associate Fellows remain affiliated as long as they continue to be enrolled in a qualifying degree program.

Why affiliate?

• Graduate students invited to join Porter College as Associate Fellows are eligible to apply for final project, thesis, and/or dissertation support. Please see details below.

•Associate Fellows are eligible to apply to serve as mentors for undergraduate students interested in research in the arts via the Porter Research Fellowships. (Please consult the description of this program under "Academics" on this website.) At the discretion of the Porter Executive Committee, graduate student applications may or may not be considered lower priority for funding than those coming from faculty.

•With the approval of the College Provost, Graduate Student Associate Fellows may devise ways of using College venues for interdisciplinary conferences, meetings, colloquia, or social events. (Consult Porter College Provost Assistant Susan Beach porterprovost@ucsc.edu or Porter Provost David Evan Jones dej@ucsc.edu with your ideas).

•Porter Graduate student Associate Fellows will be invited to participate in some Fellows' gatherings, colloquia, etc. (TBA)

Graduate Arts Research Grants

Porter College allocates $15,000 annually to support in part the reasonable and necessary research expenses associated with the presentation of a thesis or dissertation undertaken by Graduate Student Porter Associate Fellows. In general, these grants are not sufficient to provide support for the research preparatory to the thesis; instead they prioritize the expenses associated with the presentation of the final work in the form of an exhibition, performance, publication, etc.

Deadline: All applications should be addressed to Porter Provost's Office and must be delivered to Porter Faculty Services, Room D-150 by noon, Wednesday, December 2, 2009. Applications arriving after that day may not be funded. Applications must be signed by the applicant's faculty advisor (see application form) and may not be submitted electronically.

Students receiving research support are required to present a layman's overview of some aspect of their work as a guest lecture to a Porter College Seminar offered to undergraduates (mainly lower division non-specialists) each Spring.

Graduate Arts Research Committee (GARC):

These funds are awarded by a committee of Porter Graduate Student Associate Fellows recruited each fall by the Porter Provost.

With the Provost in attendance to advise, GARC meets to formulate the call for proposals, review the applications, and award the funds.

Basic Eligibility for Funding:

Porter College Associate Fellows from the Arts Division are only eligible for funding from their department if their department is represented on GARC.

GARC application

Hitchcock Poetry Fund

Porter College is soliciting applications for funding for poetry-related projects to be undertaken during the upcoming academic year. Grants will be provided from an anticipated gift of $20,000 for the year from Porter Emeritus George Hitchcock. This gift comes in association with an endowment provided by Professor Hitchcock in enduring support of poetry at Porter College. (Please see "Background of the Hitchcock Poetry Fund" below.)

Funds may be requested in any amount. However, requests are expected to exceed available funding by a factor of three or more and many proposals will very likely receive no funding at all. Last year the Advisory Committee distributed funding over a number of smaller projects rather than two or three large endeavors. Funding decisions will be made according to the criteria below and according to the priorities and judgement of the Poetry Advisory Committee, the Porter Executive Committee, and the Porter Provost.

Deadline:

Eligibility:

Criteria:

Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the quality of the work, the numbers of UCSC students and faculty involved and/or affected, and relevance to Porter College students and faculty. (While students and faculty not associated with Porter are specifically included in this call, each project must, in SOME aspect, involve Porter College students and/or faculty and the degree of Porter involvement will be a factor in the selection process.)

To Be Considered:

Background of the Hitchcock Poetry Fund:

The Porter Provost, in consultation with the Porter Executive Committee, will make final decisions on the uses of these funds. Initial decisions, however, will be made by an advisory committee set up by Mr. Hitchcock. This advisory group includes Doug McClellan (Emeritus in the Art), David Swanger (Professor of Education, Literature), Tilly Shaw (Emeritus in Literature), Marjorie Simon (poet).

Application for Hitchcock Poetry Funds