Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program

Applications are now being accepted for the 2005/2006 Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program.  

The program provides financial assistance to graduate students and is designed to increase the pool of individuals who show promise of becoming strong candidates for CSU instructional faculty positions.

It is a competitive program directed by the CSU but open to doctoral students across the country.  

The program offers loans of up to $10,000 per but not more than $30,000 within a five-year period, loan forgiveness of twenty percent each year of full-time postdoctoral teaching at any CSU campus, faculty sponsorship from a CSU.

Two criteria are used to make selections for the
Forgivable Loan/Doctoral program:

Incentive Program:

Potential to complete an approved doctoral program, compete with a national candidate pool for CSU instructional faculty positions, and succeed in teaching the diverse student population in the CSU.

Academic discipline:

Special consideration will be given to candidates whose proposed area of study falls where CSU campuses anticipate the greatest difficulty in filling faculty positions.

Applicants are not required to have attended a CSU campus nor are they required to be accepted in a doctoral program at the time of their application.   Employment in the CSU is also not required.

While typically more than half of the program participants who complete their doctoral studies have been subsequently employed at a CSU campus, an instructional faculty position is not guaranteed by acceptance into the Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program.

For information and applications visit for the CSU Forgivable Loan Web site: www.calstate.edu/HR/FLP or contact the Fresno State campus coordinator: Chuck Radke, Division of Graduate Studies, Thomas Administration, Room 132, 8-2448, FAX 8-4658, cradke@csufresno.edu .

Applications must be received in the Division of Graduate Studies at by 5 p.m. , Friday, Feb. 11, 2005.