OIRE GradFellow Job Description for 2025-2026

The Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness (OIRE) is seeking a Research Analysts for its Fellowship Program.

OIRE is an administrative unit within the Provost’s Office at the GC. It provides leadership in the areas of institutional effectiveness, data analytics, student learning assessment, program evaluation, and regional accreditation. The OIRE Fellows Program provides vital support to the office. We seek applicants with experience, skills, and/or strong interest in working in the areas of data analytics, research, assessment, and/or higher education administration.

All full-time doctoral students in good academic standing are eligible to apply. Students holding one of the GC’s multi-year fellowships and tuition fellowships are also welcome to apply. Effective with the Fall 2023 semester, this OIRE graduate fellowship requires fellows to work a total of 450 non-teaching hours during the academic year (15 hours/week).

The fellowship compensation will be approximately $28,000 for the academic year. Fellows will be appointed to the Graduate Center payroll as Graduate Assistant Bs (GAB) at their own current rate and receive a Provost’s Award that will pay through the Office of Financial Aid. The GAB title provides eligibility to purchase the low-cost NYSHIP health insurance as well as in-state tuition remission for fellows who are within their first 10 registered semesters of doctoral study. Fellows who are past their 10 registered semesters of doctoral study will be eligible to receive in-state tuition remission at the Level 3 rate as per the new PSC- CUNY contract (this benefit provides for this tuition remission for a maximum of 4 semesters past the student’s 10^th registered semester).

CLACLS Latino Data Project 2024-2025 Fellowship

Qualifications: Ph.D. students 

Deadline: Applications are due by October 28, 2024.
More Information: The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies is pleased to offer Latino Data Project Fellowships for the 2024 ‐ 2025 Academic Year. Fellows will be expected to produce an original report for the Latino Data Project. LDP Reports are original descriptive statistical reports based on IPUMS data showing the evolution of selected variables over the last three or four decades. Please visit Center for Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies for a complete list of previous LDP Reports.

Fellowship Amount: $4,000.

20th-Century US Foundations: Fellowship Opportunity & Course

Qualifications: First- and second-year Doctoral students (below Level 3) and M.A. students

Deadline: November 1, 2024

More Information: The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the CUNY Graduate Center is offering up to eight fellowships for participants in a spring 2025 course on 20th-Century American Foundations developed in collaboration with the doctoral program in history and the Rockefeller Archive Center [RAC]. See the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society’s website for more information.

Fellowship Amount: $1,250

CLACLS Reportage Fellowship 

Qualifications: Ph.D. students 

Deadline: Applications are due by November 6, 2024.

More Information: 

The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies is pleased to offer CLACLS Reportage Fellowships for the 2024 ‐ 2025 Academic Year for $1,000 each. The fellowship seeks to communicate CLACLS’ original research data to a wider audience through journalistic-styled social reportage. Fellows will be offered mentorship by CLACLS to support their academic endeavors and promoted to use of CLACLS original research for their research.

Fellowship Amount: $1,000.

CUNY Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowship Competition (2024-2025)

Qualifications: Ph.D. students advanced to candidacy (level III), expecting to complete the dissertation during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Deadline: Applications due by January 15th, 2025.
More Information: Please note that the application won’t be available until November, however, guidelines will be the same as previous years (i.e. 9-page proposal, 1-page selected bibliography, 2-page CV, GC transcript, and letter from advisor, etc.). Additionally, there are multiple awards students can apply for through the same application. Please contact Rachel Sponzo at [email protected] if you have questions. 

Grant Amount: Varies, with some fellowships exceeding $10,000.

Early Research Initiative (ERI) Award for Archival Research in American Studies

Qualifications: Ph.D. students (level II & III) whose projects necessitate work in archives, repositories, and special collections (public and private) during the summer of 2025.
Deadline: Applications due by January 28th, 2025, 3pm.
More Information: Application guidelines here. Please contact Rachel Sponzo at [email protected] if you have questions. 

Grant Amount: Multiple awards of $4,000.00 will be made in each of the following categories:

1. A) Level III students: to support research aimed at the completion of a chapter or substantive portion of the dissertation.
2. B) Level II students: whose research agenda could be substantially improved by access to archival materials prior to the submission of their dissertation prospectus.

Early Research Initiative Award for Archival Research in African American and African Diaspora Studies

Qualifications: Ph.D. students (level II & III) working in archives, repositories, and special collections (public and private) during the summer of 2025 that focuses directly on the history, society, and culture of Africans and persons of African descent.
Deadline: Applications due by January 28th, 2025, 3pm.
More Information: Application guidelines here. Please contact Rachel Sponzo at [email protected] if you have questions. 

Grant Amount: Multiple awards of $4,000.00 will be made in each of the following categories:

1. A) Level III students: to support research aimed at the completion of a chapter or substantive portion of the dissertation.
2. B) Level II students: whose research agenda could be substantially improved by access to archival materials prior to the submission of their dissertation prospectus.

Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Qualifications: Ph.D. Students must be level II, exceptions will be made for students in programs where a formal dissertation prospectus/proposal is not submitted for approval until after advancing to level III. Such level III students will only be eligible if they have not officially submitted a prospectus/proposal to their program.
Deadline: Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 3pm.
More Information: Application guidelines here. Please contact Rachel Sponzo at [email protected] if you have questions. 

Grant Amount: $4,000.