Teaching, Scholarship & Research

 

The following guidance outlines the parameters of funding options for graduate students who are foreign nationals and are unable to be physically present in the U.S. as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Please note that Graduate students who are foreign nationals, who have been located in the U.S. in a valid student visa status since the onset of travel restrictions in the Spring of 2020, and who wish to continue to receive fellowship stipend or assistantship wages during the Fall 2020 semester must remain in the U.S. in order to do so.

The University is committed to (1) providing courses for academic credit that are of a consistently high quality and (2) complying with the standards defined by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).