Forgivable Loan Program

The Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive 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.

Applications for the program are being accepted for the 2005-06 academic year. Applications must be received in Division of Graduate Studies office by 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 11.

The competitive program is directed by the CSU but open to doctoral students across the country. It provides loans of up to $10,000 per year up to a total of $30,000 within a five-year period.   

After completion of the degree, 20 percent of the loan is forgiven for each year of full-time postdoctoral teaching that is completed at any CSU campus by the recipient.

The program also includes sponsorship by a CSU faculty member.

The criteria used to make selections for the program include the applicant’s 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.

The applicant’s academic discipline will also be part of the selection criteria. 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 applicants required to have been 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 the CSU Forgivable Loan Web site: http://www.calstate.edu/HR/FLP or contact the Fresno State campus coordinator Chuck Radke in the Division of Graduate Studies, 278-2448 or cradke@csufresno.edu .