Doctoral students may apply for the Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program, which is the largest program in the nation designed to increase the diversity of the pool of qualified faculty candidates.

The CDIP will lend participants who are full-time doctoral students up to $10,000 annually to a limit of $30,000 over a five-year period. The recipients may enroll in any approved doctoral program at an accredited university in the United States or abroad.

After completion of the doctoral degree, a CDIP participant is extended a 12-month grace period before loan repayments begin. If the participant obtains a full-time instructional faculty position in the CSU, the loan principal and interest are "forgiven" at the rate of 20% for each year of service. After five years of full-time faculty service, the entire loan amount can be forgiven.

Applications can be downloaded at http://www.calstate.edu/hr/cdip/apply/. The program is sponsored by the California State University Chancellor’s Office. The application deadline is Friday, February 5, 2010. Applications are due to the Office of Graduate Studies (CH-123) by 5 pm. that day.