Graduate and Professional Education

The minimum graduate student stipends for Fiscal Year 2026 have been updated.  Minimum stipends are prorated for positions that are less than 50 percent time.  With these updates, we have achieved the goal set in August 2023 of aligning minimum stipends with the living expenses in UT’s estimated graduate student budget. Moving forward, we will continue the practice of regular review…

Colleagues,  I am pleased to share that Marieke Van Puymbroeck, Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Recreational Therapy at Clemson University, has been appointed as the next vice provost and dean of the Graduate School. Dr. Van Puymbroeck earned a Bachelor of Science in Therapeutic Recreation from Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia.…