Career Development Grant
To apply: https://cgs.osu.edu/secure/career/
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Purpose
The Career Development Grant (CDG) program is designed to help offset costs for graduate students for activities that will prepare them for their chosen career. Current graduate students in good standing with the Graduate School are encouraged to submit an application using the secure portal above. The CDG awards grants of up to $350 each for eligible expenses incurred by the activities outlined by applicants. Applications open four times a year and applicants are expected to apply in the semester before their intended activity takes place.
The CDG is awarded to individuals demonstrating strong linkages between their stated professional goals and their submitted Career Development Plan (part of the CDG application). Additionally, applicants will be evaluated upon the relevance and strength of proposed activities as they relate to the applicant's resume and the Career Development Plan.
Please read the Guidelines & How to Apply page before submitting an application.
For more information, including tips on a successful application, please see the Career Development Grant Resource Packet!
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Rationale
The financial expenses associated with defined activities or engagements included in one's Career Development Plan may be cost-prohibitive to many graduate students, and the availability of financial support for students varies widely across the university. Whereas students in some departments, schools, and colleges may have several opportunities for funding, others may have no sources of funding whatsoever. For this reason, the absence of such funds at the university-level has resulted in significant concern from the Council of Graduate Students (CGS).
Inquiries on this matter to the CGS office and delegates, from both individual students and other graduate student associations within the university, are frequent. Therefore, the CDG will help fill a void for many students. Additionally, it will also provide financial continuity for graduate students to further their professional activities upon exhausting other funding sources.
The Career Development Grant is intended to supplement -- not replace -- existing funds at the program, department, school, college, and/or university levels.