The Teaching Reduction University of Toronto Fellowship provides financial support toward stipend. The main benefit of the TR-UTF is that the TA obligation is reduced over the year the award is tenable. Students without TR-UTF support are required to complete approximately 200 hours of TA over the year. Students with one unit of TR-UTF ($5000), however, are required to complete only 100 hours of TA for the year.
Value and duration
The TR-UTF is typically awarded in one unit ($5000). Three equal installment cheques are issued directly to the student, usually in September, January (assuming a $0 balance in the registration system, ROSI) and May.
Eligibility
- There is no restriction with respect to citizenship or status in Canada.
- Students who have completed at least one session of graduate school in the Department of Chemistry at University of Toronto.
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Only students in the funded cohort are eligible for TR-UTF support. The funded cohort is defined as follows:
- Doctoral students in years one to four of program
- Direct-entry Doctoral students in years one to five of program
- Students dually-registered in the Master’s program and year one of a Ph.D. must complete their Master’s program by the required deadline to retain their Doctoral TR-UTF.
Conditions of award
- Must be registered in Chemistry's doctoral program.
- Students must have completed at least one year of graduate studies in the Department of Chemistry at University of Toronto.
- Students must exhibit overall academic excellence. For applicants entering the 1st or 2nd year of graduate studies, they must have an average of at least A- (A minus), or equivalent, on the last 20 half-course equivalents completed. For applicants entering 3rd year or beyond of graduate studies, they must have an average of at least A- (A minus), or the equivalent, on all graduate courses completed.
- Applications will be assessed based on research ability or potential, excellent communication skills, academic standing and interpersonal and leadership abilities.
- Doctoral students who fail to arrange an annual supervisory committee meeting are ineligible.
- Students outside the funded cohort are ineligible.