Recommendation for Appointment of Graduate Fellow or Trainee
Please use this form for Graduate Fellowships. Fellowships are intended to help support student research and should not come with specific university work requirements. If there are university work requirements, you likely should be appointing that student as a "Graduate Assistant" (please see the Graduate Assistant Appointment form). No taxes are withheld from fellowship payments, so students should be advised to consult a tax professional when receiving fellowship payments to determine their tax liability if any.
Before proceeding, consult your department's finance team or your GL and obtain the account numbers that you will be using for Stipend, Tuition, and Insurance coverage. ORA can assist with these numbers if there is grant funding involved. All account numbers are needed in order to complete this form.
Students appointed on Fellowships will need to be registered for the semester in which the fellowship begins, and will need to fill out the appropriate W-9 (domestic students) or W-8BEN (international students without US Social Security numbers). Please make sure the student has completed the appropriate form and upload it below.
For tuition differentials only, please use this form instead.