Stipend for Graduate school? My daughter is 19YO and will be
graduating with her BA in International Relations this semester. She
is thrifty and doesn't like the idea of student loans. Even though she
is young to be graduating she  is smart but has not been successful in
obtaining any scholarships, she has obtained several small grants,
like $250.00. The question is where and how can she find info on
Stipends. She would like to go to Grad school in Cuba  or Hawaii and
study either Law or more International Relations.
She is a white single young woman, not handicapped or from a
disadvantaged family (we just cannot afford grad school), and smart
for her age

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 31 Mar 2003 07:11 PST

Please tell us where you live and where your daughter attended
undergraduate college...this will help research possible stipends.

Thanks.

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Clarification of Question by gabby20-ga on 31 Mar 2003 08:15 PST

My daughter attended the first 2 years at Normandale Community college
in Bloomington , Minnesota. The Junior and Senior years at the
Univerity of Maine, Gorham and Portland campus.
If I remember right back in My graduate days I lived in Hawaii and The
univ of Georgia offered me a stipend for the Grad (PhD)program , Which
was for me to work in the Grad dept so many hours per month, which
then also allowed me not to have to pay  out of state tuition.
Does any thing like this exist any longer (mine was in 1980)
Feel free to ask more if needed
Thanks

Hi Gabby20,

As I noted in the comment below, I received a stipend in the form of
teaching/research assistantships during my graduate work in
international relations.  However, it seems that such opportunities
are limited in Hawaii.

At most universities, international relations is a specialization
within the political science department.

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The political science graduate program at the University of Hawaii is
located at the Manoa  campus.  It offers a specialization in
International Relations and provides the following funding
opportunities:

*General tuition waivers, which are awarded on the basis of academic
merit.
*Research Assistantships (when funding is available)
*Student Help jobs, which “involve working with a faculty member as a
research
     assistant or typist.”

http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/pols/gradstudy.htm

*The department also offers two teaching apprenticeships to new
graduate students:
For an application see: 

http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/pols/forms/TAapplication.PDF 

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Pacific Western University also offers a Masters of Science degree in
International Relations but does not offer any stipend programs:

“The University does not have a program for tuition assistance through
either scholarships or loans and has not sought state or federal
funding. PWU has no residency requirements and operates on a low
cost/minimum budget per program. The University serves working adults
and does not provide placement service.”

http://www.pwu.com/home.asp?ID=7

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University of Hawaii’s  William S. Richardson School of Law is one of
the top 100 laws schools in the country according to the following
article in the Honolulu Star Bulletin:

http://starbulletin.com/2003/04/06/news/story16.html

The following aid programs/scholarships are available:

http://www.hawaii.edu/law/scholarships/



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I’m assuming that your daughter speaks Spanish if she wants to study
in Cuba.
La Universidad del Oriente in Santiago de Cuba offers scholarships to
attract foreign students (in Spanish):

http://www.uo.edu.cu/estudios_becas.html  

However, this site recommends that you contact the Cuban Embassy or
Consulate in your country.  As you may already know, given relations
between Cuba and the U.S., there is no Cuban Embassy in the U.S.  You
may want to contact the minister of foreign relations at Cuba’s
permanent mission to the United Nations (in Spanish):

http://www.cubaminrex.cu/

You might also be interested in contacting the Instituto Superior de
Relaciones Internacioneles (in Spanish)

http://www.campus-oei.org/guiauniv/cub001.htm

Moreover, there are strict limitations placed on travel to Cuba by
U.S. citizens.  Graduate studies may fall under the following
permissible travel regulations that allow:
“Full-time professionals whose travel transactions are directly
related to professional research in their professional areas, provided
that their research : (1) is of a noncommercial academic nature; (2)
comprises a full work schedule in Cuba, and (3) has a substantial
likelihood of public dissemination”

http://travel.state.gov/cuba.html

The following are the guidelines for applying for travel to Cuba:

http://cubanow.org/travelinfo/ustreseary/research_license.html

Otherwise, your daughter will likely have to enroll in a U.S. graduate
program that offers a specialization in international relations and
Cuba then apply to do her research on the Island.

For example, the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International
University offers travel grants to study in Cuba:

http://lacc.fiu.edu/cri/research_travel.htm

Other post- graduate programs that offer Cuban Studies programs
include:
The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies,University Of
Miami:

http://cuba.iccas.miami.edu/contact.html

The Northwestern University School of Law (International Team Project
about Cuba):

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawlibrary/research/foreign/cuba.htm

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You might also want to check out the CubaNow site:

http://www.cubanow.org/



I hope this has been helpful.  If anything is unclear, please feel
free to request a clarification and allow me to respond before rating
this answer.  Best of luck to your daughter.

Gitana

My daughter thought it was a good answer,and she was pleased with the
results,  so much in fact she wants to know how to do it her self, so
you may get some questions from her.

I just completed my graduate work in international relations at a
public university and received a $12,000/year stipend for 8 years. 
This was ostensibly compensation for 20 hours work/week as a
teaching/research assistant.  In the last 3 years I received the same
compensation for teaching two classes/semester.  Is this the kind of
thing you are looking for?