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Admissions
- Apply to SFA
- graduate transfer credit
- overlap recommendation
Only for SFA students seeking overlap admission. Requires the chair’s and dean's signatures.
Assistantships
A graduate assistantship is a new employment position and requires all new employee steps, including a graduate assistantship offer letter of acceptance.
Upon offering the graduate assistantship, the department making the appointment must have the student sign the graduate assistantship offer (acceptance/denial) letter. The letter may be submitted to the student in person, by mail, fax or e-mail. An Electronic Personnel Action Form (EPAF) should then be initiated by the department upon receiving the signed graduate assistantship offer letter of acceptance from the student.
Awards
- Marilyn Odom Outstanding Graduate Student Award
- nominator form
Nominations may be made by any SFA graduate faculty member. The nominating faculty member completes this form with the help of the nominee. - nominee form
Award nominees complete this form and have it submitted with the nominator form.
- nominator form
- William R. Johnson Outstanding Thesis Award nomination form
The thesis director completes this form and submits it with a copy of the thesis.
Coursework and Graduation
- course substitution request
- degree plan
- degree plan change petition
- graduation application - available in the Student Records tab of mySFA
- petition to accept out-of-date courses
- report of comprehensive final examination
Dissertation, Exhibition and Thesis Completion
- committees
- dissertation
- exhibition
- thesis
- sample forms
Guides for Manuscript Formatting and Submission
Research Grants and Sponsored Programs
Additional documents are available on the SFA business forms page.
Centers
- Guidelines and Procedures for Establishing Centers, Institutes, and Specialized Testing or Service Laboratories at SFA
Compliance
- conflict of interest and nepotism
- research gift notification and compliance information
- responsible conduct of research training
- required disclosure of research sponsors in public communications
Post Award: Budget Set-up and Finance
- additional compensation verification
- documenting cost share and matching
- expenditure transfer request
- fixed-price agreement closeout certification form
- internal budget set up and revision
- navigating contracts
- navigating food purchases
- PI/PD Transfer of Project Responsibility form (PTR)
- Program Income Notification (PIN)
- Report Approval (RAF)
- Request to Establish a Banner Fund for grants & contracts (REF)
- retention of grant records
- Revision Clearance Form (RCF)
- sample lab use tracking form
- shadow budget template
- sponsored projects close out guide
Proposals
- additional compensation checklist
- Cost-Share Budget Detail
- FCOI Disclosure (PI/PD/Key personal Financial Conflict of Interest and Nepotism Disclosure for proposals and to notify of changes at post award)
- Indirect Cost Reduction Request (ICR)
- PI/PD Eligibility
- PI/PD Proposal Checklist
- PI/PD Responsibilities
- sample budget spreadsheet
- Subawardee Certification (SUB)
Subawards and Contracts for Grants
- contract amendment template
- federal subaward template
- interagency cooperation agreement (subaward) template
- interagency cooperation agreement (vendor) template
- interlocal cooperation contract (vendor) template
- participant agreement (vendor) template
- educational research agreement template
- services agreement (travel only) template
- services agreement (vendor) template
- website development agreement contract
- memorandum of understanding (MOU) template