{"id":294,"date":"2025-10-29T21:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:05:30","slug":"student-support-on-sponsored-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/osp\/guidance\/student-support-on-sponsored-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Support on Sponsored Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Student support encompasses benefits for GRAs on Sponsored Projects, such as salary, tuition, and fees. Check out the tools below for guidance on Mandatory Graduate Fees and effectively managing your student support on sponsored project funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Read the specific Award Terms and Conditions before charging any expense to a sponsored project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1) GRA Predoc appointment type \u2013 used for Fellowship<\/em> and Trainee Grants. Some Trainee grants require a GRA Predoc student to be a full\u2010time student, currently defined as 9 credit hours.
(2) Tuition, Differential Tuition, and fees may be paid out of the associated Cost of Education Account, which may have restrictions on the type of costs that can be charged. Read the specific
Award Terms and Conditions before charging any expense to a project.
(3) Fringe may not be charged to the \u201853\u2019 sponsored project; however, the fringe benefit cost will be paid by a central pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Appointment
\nType<\/th>		Compensation
\nType<\/th>		Employment
\nType<\/th>		Compensation
\nAllowed on
\nSponsored
\nProjects<\/th>		Tuition and
\nDifferential
\nallowed on
\nSponsored
\nProjects?<\/th>		Mandatory Fees
\nallowed on
\nSponsored
\nProjects?<\/th>		Fringe Benefits by
\nAppointment<\/th>		Fringe Benefits
\nallowed on
\nSponsored
\nProjects?<\/th>		Resources<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Graduate
\nResearch
\nAssistant
\n(GRA)<\/td>		Monthly Salary<\/td>At\u2010will
\nEmployee<\/td>		Yes*<\/td>Yes* \u2010 In\u2010State
\nportion only<\/td>		Yes*<\/td>Health contribution,
\nEAP, ACA, Medicare,
\nParental Leave,
\nWorker\u2019s Comp<\/td>		Yes*<\/td>https:\/\/graduateschool.colostate.edu\/
\nfinancial\/assistantships\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graduate
\nTeaching
\nAssistant
\n(GTA)<\/td>		Monthly Salary<\/td>At\u2010will
\nEmployee<\/td>		No<\/td>No<\/td>No<\/td>Health contribution,
\nEAP, ACA, Medicare,
\nParental Leave,
\nWorker\u2019s Comp<\/td>		No<\/td>https:\/\/graduateschool.colostate.edu\/
\nfinancial\/assistantships\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GRA Predoc
\n(1)<\/td>		Monthly Stipend<\/td>Trainee
\n(not an
\nemployee)<\/td>		-1<\/td>-2<\/td>-2<\/td>Health contribution,
\nEAP, ACA, Medicare,
\nParental Leave,
\nWorker\u2019s Comp (3)<\/td>		No (3)<\/td>https:\/\/graduateschool.colostate.edu\/
\nfinancial\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Student Hourly<\/td>Bi\u2010weekly pay
\nbased on hours
\nlogged on
\nTimeClock Plus<\/td>		At\u2010will
\nEmployee<\/td>		Yes*<\/td>No<\/td>No<\/td>Medicare, ACA,
\nWorkman\u2019s comp<\/td>		Yes*<\/td>https:\/\/financialaid.colostate.edu\/stud
\nent\u2010employment\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n

Mandatory Graduate Fees on Sponsored Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As of January 2023, mandatory student fees for all Graduate Students will be partially paid by CSU (per an email from the Office of the Provost on November 29th). This will be a phased approach, during the spring semester of 2023 GRAs and GTAs will have 50% of their fees paid by CSU and be responsible for the other 50%; for the academic year 2024-2025 they will have 75% of their fees paid by CSU and be responsible for 25%, and by the academic year 2025-2026 100% of their fees will be covered by CSU. Fee coverage may be by a central account, a College\/Department account, or a sponsored project account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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