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Arts Grants Eligibility
Student Eligibility
Any Stanford undergraduate in good standing is eligible for student arts grants.
- You must not be on probation, suspension or other provisional registration status. No minimum GPA requirement exists for student grant applicants. However, Undergraduate Advising and Research (UAR) may request an explanation for incompletes, withdrawals or failing grades on your transcript.
- You must be an undergraduate at the time you submit your proposal and when you finish your project. If you are a coterminal graduate student, we consider you an undergraduate as long as you have not yet received your bachelor's degree.
- You may only use grant funds while on leave of absence from Stanford if you have a specific project-related reason for leaving and prior approval from UAR.
- You may not receive more than $7,000 in a single academic year. This annual limit applies to any combination of UAR grants and awards from VPUE-funded departments or individual faculty members. It does not apply to funding from the federal work-study program.
- You may accept only one of the following in an academic year:
- Major Grant
- Chappell Lougee Scholarship
- Haas Summer Fellowship
- Departmental summer assistantship
- Other summer internship
These opportunities are each significant time commitments and are intended to require your full-time efforts.
Faculty Mentor Eligibility
All projects supported by a student arts grant must be conducted under the guidance of a qualifying Stanford mentor. Your project may draw upon the guidance of more than one mentor; yet at least one of your mentors must meet all the following criteria:
- A qualifying mentor must hold the title of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer, or Senior Fellow at Stanford. Mentors without one of these titles only qualify with prior UAR staff approval and only if they meet all other criteria.
- Your mentor must have substantial creative experience closely related to the medium of your proposed project and / or subject matter.
- Your mentor must be available to provide consultation, training and advice throughout your project timeline.
Project Eligibility
- UAR does not fund student projects retroactively. We only reimburse expenses incurred after we have approved your proposal.
- UAR does not fund public service, educational opportunities or internships that are otherwise unpaid. UAR does not fund expenses already covered by another funding source. When submitting your proposal, you must disclose all time commitments and funding sources, and describe their relationship (if any) to your proposed research.
- If your project entails work off campus, you won’t receive funding until you provide UAR with evidence that you’re well-prepared for the ethical, cultural, methodological and administrative aspects of off-campus production. UAR cannot support, in any manner, travel to or work in a country with a current U.S. State Department Travel Warning. Please read more about the off-campus travel policy
- Pre-Field Course Offerings
- UAR may disqualify any proposal in the event of unaddressed safety or ethics concerns.