Specific Ph.D. Financial Information,Indiana University

SLIS Departmental Aid Information
Any Ph.D. applicant who fills out the application for SLIS financial aid will be considered for all financial aid awards listed below. A student must be admitted to a graduate degree program in order to be eligible for financial aid from SLIS. Students with financial assistance must make adequate progress toward their degree each semester and meet all other requirements of the award, or financial support may be discontinued. Stipends and salaries earned by graduate students are taxable. It is the responsibility of each recipient to confirm the tax status of any award with the Internal Revenue Service.

Federal Financial Support Programs
There are a variety of sources of financial aid for doctoral students, including fellowships awarded by the university to outstanding graduate students, and government-funded research awards. SLIS also provides support to Ph.D. students in the form of graduate assistantships and other kinds of direct aid. Graduate assistantships are usually awarded to students who have been involved in ongoing research projects. Newly admitted students are often awarded other forms of financial aid. International students are required by the University Graduate School to demonstrate financial independence before being admitted to the program.

Fellowships/Scholarships/Awards
The School also offers some one-time cash fellowship awards to new and continuing students in the SLIS degree programs. One scholarship of particular interest to doctoral students is the Clayton A. Shepherd Scholarship.

University Graduate School GradGrants Center
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Rob Kling Social Informatics Fellowship
This fellowship honors Professor Rob Kling's many contributions to social informatics education. The Fellowship is awarded annually, in consultation with Mitzi Lewison, Kling's wife, to a social informatics student enrolled in the doctoral program of the School of Library and Information Science.

Kling was among the first to recognize the political character of computerization. He wrote extensively about value conflicts and social choices, advocated that social values be incorporated in the design of computer-based information systems, and lobbied for changes in public policy. In addition to his scholarly work, he wrote textbooks to introduce students to social informatics and published articles on the challenges of teaching the social uses of computing. Kling's greatest legacy is to the generations of students he introduced to social informatics, those whom he inspired, nurtured, mentored, collaborated with, and to whom he communicated his deep engagement with intellectual life and the world and his commitment to an ethical and moral life.
Source: slis.indiana.edu