Farmers National Fellowship

The purpose of this fellowship is to enhance the educational experience of our graduate students, giving attention to teaching as well as other competencies.
The fellowship will provide $2,000 awards to either M.S. or Ph.D. students.

Guidelines for the Farmers National fellowship:

Full-time graduate students enrolled in a primary major in one of the following degree programs:
- Master of Business Administration with a specialization in Agribusiness
- Agricultural Economics in the Department of Agricultural Economics CASNR
- Agronomy
Preference will be given to candidates who have expressed a desire to pursue a career in the area of farm management or commodity marketing.
Students currently on either research or teaching assistantships are eligible (minimum 0.33 FTE). The fellowship does not require that a student be on a teaching assistantship.
A student is limited to one CASNR Fellowship (Milton E. Mohr/Farmers National/Cooper Sharpless/etc.) per degree (e.g. 1/MS and 1/PhD).
Students must be nominated by their advisor or Unit Graduate Committee Chair.
Unit administrators must rank the nominees on the form if 2 or more students are nominated (with no more than a total of 4 nominations for the CASNR Fellowships), approved by both the Chair of the Unit Graduate Committee or the Unit Administrator. Rankings will be considered as informational to the selection committee. All nominees from a unit will be considered by the selection committee, independent of unit ranking.
The $2,000 stipend will be distributed on an academic-year basis and are to be an additional stipend over and above the regular assistantship rate for the student’s academic unit. This is not to be used in lieu of other dollars which the unit would otherwise allocate to the recipient’s assistantship.

Required Supporting Materials:

A 2-page resume (maximum. Include relevant teaching experience), transcripts and
one supporting letter documenting the candidate’s previous teaching experience or teaching interest are required for each nominee.
an advising or formal transcript of all graduate UNL coursework
The CASNR Graduate Fellowship Committee will review the applications within two weeks following the indicated deadline

NOTE: This form cannot be filled out by the student. Please contact your advisor to complete this form. These forms can only be accepted directly from the departments.

If you have any questions or issues with this form, please contact msailors2@unl.edu.

Student Name

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Farmers National Fellowship

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