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Apply Now for Supplemental Retention Scholarships! SRS application deadline for Spring 2026 is November 10, 2025 Date distributed: October 10, 2025 The application cycle for Spring 2026 Supplemental Retention Scholarships (SRS) is now open! Applications are due by Monday, November 10, 2025. For the application and instructions, click here. This scholarship has long been a lifeline to get PhD and MFA Grad Gators over the finish line — by providing much-needed tuition relief to those in that final stage of dissertation or final project during their graduating semester when they have exhausted their funding contract. It funds funds three credit hours (in fall and spring) and two credit hours (in summer) of in-state tuition. Eligibility & Requirements To be considered for this scholarship: You must be in their final semester and due to graduate. You must have exhausted their funding (such as department or college fellowships, assistantships or other funding). You must have been on a graduate assistant appointment or fellowship for at least three years prior. You cannot be employed as a UF TEAM employee or in a UF adjunct position. You can be employed as a student assistant or in an OPS position, but for no more than $15 an hour You must have a degree application on file with the Registrar’s Office. You must meet the dissertation first submission deadline for the semester in which you are due to graduate. Note: The scholarship award will be released after the first submission deadline. You must include with their application a personal statement explaining why you could not complete their dissertation with the time frame of their funding. Your academic unit must supply a letter of support that explains why it can no longer fund you and why you did not complete their dissertation in the time frame of funding. You must include with their application a research plan with milestones, advising check-ins, and courses for which you will register to wrap up the semester with graduation. See: Dissertation Research Action Plan. You can only receive this scholarship once. Application & Instructions For the Spring 2026 SRS application and instructions, click here. Questions? Email gradawards@aa.ufl.edu.       106 Grinter Hall • 1532 Union Road • Gainesville FL 32611 352 392 6622 • gradschool@aa.ufl.edu • grad.ufl.edu   FOLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!     This email was sent by the University of Florida Graduate School PO Box 115500, Gainesville, FL, 32611