Delta Kappa Gamma World Fellowships

Award Overview

Purpose

The mission of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International is to promote the professional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education. The World Fellowship Fund was established to provide opportunities for international women to pursue graduate studies in Canada and the United States.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

  • Be currently registered full-time in a master’s or doctoral program at the University of Toronto;
  • Identify as a woman student;
  • Have a valid study permit (Citizens and permanent residents of Canada and the United States are ineligible);
  • Not be completing their degree requirements in 2025. Award holders must be registered full-time in their program throughout the 2025-26 academic year in order to receive and retain the funds; and
  • Not currently be a member of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International.

Preference is given to candidates who plan to return to and create an impact within their home countries.

Application Process

In order to submit the required materials, applicants must complete an online submission form by 4:30pm on Monday, December 2, 2024.  It is recommended that applicants use their internet browser’s incognito/private mode to access the online submission form, in order to receive a prompt to login using their U of T email address. 

Applicants are responsible for ensuring that their referees email the completed DKG Letter of Reference Form directly to graduate.awards@utoronto.ca by 4:30 pm on Monday, November 25, 2024 (which is 1 week earlier than the applicants’ submission deadline).

Incomplete applications or late materials will not be considered.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to review the Application Requirements section below for further details on eligibility, application instructions and requirements.

Application Package

Applicants must retain all of their hardcopy application materials (including transcripts) until June, as the originals may be requested by the DKG Toronto World Fellowships Committee or the DKG International World Fellowships Committee.

Each applicant must upload to the online submission form each of the following components as a PDF file using the file naming convention “APPLICANT LAST NAME, first initial – DKG2025 App-component name”. Eg. Student, S – DKG2025 App-studypermit:

  • PDF application form (9 pages, including signature page);
  • Status of Degree Work page which must be completed by the U of T graduate unit;
  • Copy of a valid study permit;
  • Scans of original or certified/validated copies of up-to-date official transcripts from all previous post-secondary studies;
  • University of Toronto official transcript showing all grades obtained to date;
  • A professional resume or curriculum vitae (500 word maximum, size 12 font) may be included, but is not required.
  • Applicants are responsible for sending the DKG Letter of Reference Form to each of their 3 referees and ensuring that their referees email the completed form directly to graduate.awards@utoronto.ca with the subject title “DKG 2025 APPLICANT LAST NAME, first initial – Referee Last Name” by Monday, November 25, 2024 (which is 1 week earlier than the applicants’ submission deadline).

Application Requirements

Online Submission Form

Applicants must upload the components of their application to the online submission form and submit the online submission form by 4:30 pm on Monday, December 2, 2024.

It is recommended that applicants use their internet browser’s incognito/private mode to access the online submission form, in order to receive a prompt to login using their U of T email address.

Application Form

The PDF application form must be completed in English and typed in 12 point font.

A professional resume (for professional degrees such as law and MBA’s) or complete curriculum vitae may be attached to the application form (500 word maximum, size 12 font).

Written Statements

Written statements should be limited to 500 words. Please be concise and include specific background information.

Signature Form

This is the 9th page within the PDF application form. Applicants must sign and date this page.

Status of Degree Work

The Status of Degree Work page is the 10th page within the PDF application form and must be completed by each applicant’s U of T graduate unit.

Applicants must ask their Graduate Administrator to complete this page well in advance of the applicants’ submission deadline, so that the applicant can include the completed page within their application package.

Study Permit

A study permit is an immigration document that allows individuals who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents to live in Canada temporarily while they study at a post-secondary institution for 6 months or more.

Further information on study permits can be found on the Centre for International Experience’s Getting a Study Permit web page.

Applicants must provide a copy of their valid study permit within their application package.

Transcripts

The DKG Society International requires official transcripts covering the entire period of study at universities and other post-secondary institutions.  Grading legends must be provided with every transcript.

If you do not have any grades at U of T yet, please upload a PDF of your ACORN academic history showing current registration.

Official e-transcripts may require any encryption to be removed before combining with any files. Applicants may use freely available software such as their internet browser (e.g., Chrome) or Adobe Acrobat to “print to PDF” in order to create an unencrypted “copy” of the file.

  • In exceptional cases when it is not possible for an applicant to obtain an official international transcript by the applicants’ submission deadline, a certified/validated scan of an up-to-date unofficial transcript can be accepted, provided that the institution’s transcript legend is included and the student’s and institution’s names are visible;
  • Applicants can obtain certification/validation of unofficial international transcripts by making the request to their U of T graduate unit/registrar well in advance of the applicants’ submission deadline;
  • Documents in a language other than English must be accompanied by complete official English translations.

​If a traditional transcript cannot be obtained, the applicant must provide certified, official evidence of the post‐secondary or university degree, diploma, or certificate from the appropriate institution. This evidence should list the subjects studied and the grades received during each year of enrolment.​

Letter of Reference Forms

DKG Letter of Reference Forms must be kept confidential from applicants and cannot be uploaded to the applicants’ online submission form.

Each applicant must arrange for three (3) referees to complete the DKG Letter of Reference Form. If more than 3 Letter of Reference Forms are received for one applicant in this competition, only the first three received will be used.

The forms should be completed in English; otherwise, a complete and original English translation of must be provided.

The three (3) referees must be:

  • Teachers under whom the applicant has studied or pursued research; and
  • Individuals who supervised the applicant in work related to their proposed field of study.

At least one (1) referee should be an academic and at least one (1) referee should have supervised the applicant in a professional or work‐related capacity.

Applicants are responsible for sending the DKG Letter of Reference Form to each of their 3 referees and ensuring that their referees email the completed form directly to graduate.awards@utoronto.ca with the subject title “DKG 2025 APPLICANT LAST NAME, first initial – Referee Last Name” by Monday, November 25, 2024 (which is 1 week earlier than applicants’ submission deadline).

The referees may also attach a letter, but only the DKG Letter of Reference Form is required.

Results

All complete and eligible applications from the University of Toronto are reviewed by the DKG Toronto World Fellowships Committee, which selects the top ten (10) applications. SGS’ Graduate Awards Office will notify all applicants via their U of T email address of the university’s competition results in late-February.

The top ten (10) Toronto applications are forwarded to the DKG International World Fellowships Committee for final adjudication against the top applicants from all participating universities across Canada and the United States. The total number of Canadian awardees varies from year to year. The final results are communicated to applicants in June.

Contacts & Resources

Please direct questions regarding this competition to:

Graduate Awards Office
School of Graduate Studies
graduate.awards@utoronto.ca
416-978-2386