Educational Expense portion - NSF GRFP

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Hello NSF GRFP fellows,

Anyone can explain to me how the educational expense is supposed to be used for? From the solicitation, I get that my school will get 12K per year.  As of now, I'm fully funded by a departmental fellowship and my insurance is also covered.

Can I get my conference registration and housing cost covered with that? Or it is based on my negotiation with the school? I'm trying to see if I can save my boss some money.

Thanks! Any advice will be appreciated!

[AKJen]

Whether or not you can access that is up to the university.  At mine, I'm covered by a school-wide fellowship, but since I have the NSF GRFP, they use the educational expense portion in place of the institutional fellowship.  You'll have to negotiate; if it's a large R1, they probably have procedures in place for this.  

[th3catalyst]

I am curious about this, too. My school has never received a GRFP before so we are all learning together about this process. 

 

If anybody with experience with this could chime in about how your institution handles the educational allowance that would be great! 

 

Thanks!!

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th3catalyst, I heard from another fellow that jennyb is correct. It really depends on the school, and the awardee's funding situation BEFORE getting the fellowship. I found some internal source of funding for conference registration fee, now I only have to negotiate for the rest. Thanks Jennyb!