Graduate Course-based Master’s Community Engagement Award

Funded by the Graduate Students’ Association (GSA), the Graduate Course-based Master’s Community Engagement Award recognizes the academic achievement and demonstrated leadership, community engagement and volunteerism of course-based master’s students at the University of Alberta.

Value

$2,500

Eligibility

To be eligible, students must meet the following eligibility criteria:

  • No restrictions on citizenship.
  • Must be registered full-time or part-time in Fall 2024 and/or Winter 2025 terms in a course-based master’s program at the U of A.
  • Must have satisfactory academic standing:
    • Students admitted in Fall 2024 or Winter 2025 terms must have a minimum 3.0 admission GPA (AGPA).
    • Current students must have a minimum of 2.7 GPA over the most recent 15 units of course weight in the current program. Where there are less than 15 graded credits in the current program, the admission GPA (AGPA) is a weighted factor.
  • Selection based on academic achievement and demonstrated leadership, community engagement and volunteerism.
  • Students must not hold other awards or scholarships with a combined value of $15,000 or greater during the tenure of this award (i.e., Sept. 1, 2024 - Aug. 31, 2025).

Application Procedures

Students must consult with their faculty for their internal deadline and internal application process. Applicants must complete the following, and ensure any requirements are submitted to their faculty by their internal deadline to be considered.

Application requirements

  1. Completed application form signed by the student; additional attachments will not be accepted.
  2. Up-to-date unofficial U of A transcripts printed from Bear Tracks; must include current registration (i.e., both Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 terms)

Once nominations have been submitted to GPS, revisions will not be permitted. Incomplete nominations, including those submitted with missing transcripts, will not be considered. It is the student’s/faculty’s responsibility to ensure that the application package is complete in every respect before such is nominated to GPS via GSMS.

Nomination Procedures

Faculties determine the best way to select their nominees. Faculties are encouraged to set an earlier, internal departmental deadline to allow time for internal adjudication (if applicable).

Each faculty is assigned a funding allocation by GPS, and then selects nominees based on those allocations. The faculty then nominates students to GPS by submitting through GSMS Awards Portal (refer to award memo for details and submission instructions).

Please see the memo and allocation table below for more information:

GPS reviews the applications for eligibility and completeness and forwards them to the student’s faculty to be adjudicated. Faculties are given a limited funding to allocate to their graduate students.

Adjudication Procedures

The GPS verifies eligibility of faculty nominees, and notifies winners directly.

Deadlines

Deadline for faculties to submit nominations to GPS through GSMS Awards Portal is Jan. 7, 2025.

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