CLA Updates for Graduate Students and Programs
Graduate Student Services and COVID-19 Updates
For more information on the program, including fellowships, go to the Graduate page of the department's main website.
If you are not sure which staff member to contact with a question, take a look at the staff responsibilities chart!
First Year Student Information
Grads on the Market
PhD Handbook
Academic
- Alternatives to POL 8106
- Preliminary Written Exams
- Professional Development Videos 2020
- Proposing Summer Courses
- Prospectus Meeting Form
- Update Your CLA Directory Profile
Financial
- Colloquia Policies & Guidelines
- Standard process may be affected by departmental response to COVID-19. Please refer to the COVID-19 intranet page.
- Colloquia Dinner Policy
- Standard process may be affected by departmental response to COVID-19. Please refer to the COVID-19 intranet page.
- Competitive Graduate Research Fellowships
- Employee Expense Worksheet
- External Grant and Fellowship Resources
- Graduate Student Summer Stipend Policy
- Grants, Fellowships, and Research Funding via CLA's Research Development Services
- I-9 Verification Steps
- Political Science Graduate Student Emergency Request Form
- Student Emergency Funds
- Student Fees
- Travel Support 2021-22
- UMN Travel Information
Office Space and Computers
- Graduate Office Computer Request
- Graduate Student Desktop Computer Policy
- Requests to Change Desks or Offices
Other Policies and Resources
- TA Guidelines
- Red Folder - Helping Students in Distress
- Business Cards
- Course Evaluations
- Graduate Office Representatives
- Mental Health Resources
- Parent Support
- PoLab Printing
- Research Institutes
- Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Relationship Violence
- The Graduate School
- UMN Policy Library
