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$2,475 for 9 months. Assigned duties in teaching or research amount to
12 hours a week. Registration is limited to 12-15 credits.
 ONE-THIRD-TIME ASSISTANTSHIPS provide a stipend from $2,574 to
$3,150 for 9 months. An academic year of graduate residence may be com-
pleted in 4 quarters. Fifteen hours a week are devoted to duties in teaching
or research. Registration is limited to 9-14 credits.
 ONE-HALF-TIME ASSISTANTSHIPS provide a stipend from $3,420 to
$4,005 for 9 months. A year of graduate residence may be completed in
5 quarters. Assigned duties amount to twenty hours a week. Registration is
limited to 9-11 credits.
 Interested students should inquire at their department offices concerning
the availability of assistantships and the procedure for making application.
Prospective students should write directly to the chairman of their major de-
partments as well as to the Admissions Office. Early inquiry is essential in
order to be assured of meeting application deadlines. Appointments are made
on the recommendation of the department chairman, subject to admission to
the Graduate School and to the approval of the Dean of the Graduate School.
Clear evidence of superior ability and promise is required. Reappointment to
assistantships requires evidence of continuation of good scholarship.

 PEACE CORPS AWARDS
 In encouraging Peace Corps returnees to pursue an advanced degree, the
Graduate Council has designated two fellowships for 1972-1973 which will
be used for well-qualified Peace Corps applicants.
 NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT FELLOWSHIPS
 TITLE VI NDEA FELLOWSHIPS.-These are available for students whose
proposed programs emphasize the learning of either Spanish or Portuguese
through courses in the language or, in the case of doctoral candidates working
on the dissertation, through research dealing with the language or research in
which the language is an indispensable tool. Fellows are expected also to study
other fields needed for a fuller understanding of the area, region, or country
in which such language is commonly used. These related studies may include
such fields as anthropology, economics, geography, history, linguistics, litera-
ture, political science, and sociology.
 The basic stipend will comprise the cost of tuition and all required fees,
plus $2,000 for the first academic year of postbaccalaureate study, $2,200
for each subsequent academic year, and $2,400 for the terminal academic
year.
 NDEA-RELATED FULBRIGHT-HAYS GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS FOR
 STUDY ABROAD
 The purpose of this program is to enable graduate students who plan to
teach in U. S. institutions of higher education to undertake non-Western lan-
guage and area study and research abroad.