The Graduate and Professional Allocations Committee (GPAC) is responsible for reviewing funding requests from over 500 student organizations on campus and making funding recommendations to Graduate and Professional Student Organization (GPSG).

Academic Year 2024–2025 Student Org Budget Deadlines

Applying for Student Org Funding

• Step 1: Log into Engage using your own UIowa log-in
• Step 2: Along the left bar, hover over the icon for your student org. The icon should show a blue and white gear when you hover over it. Click on that gear. (If your student org does not exist in the left bar, please make sure you are a member of the student org on Engage. Contact the email for Sam Jacobs samuel-jacobs@uiowa.edu, for assistance related to Engage.)
• Step 3: Click on a dropdown menu listed as "Finance." (If you do not see "Finance," please make sure you are listed as a Treasurer/Account Signer for your student org on Engage. If you continue to run into trouble, please contact the email for Sam Jacobs samuel-jacobs@uiowa.edu for assistance.)
• Step 4: Click on  "Create Request" and then "Create Budget Request." 
• Step 5: Select the appropriate GPSG Funding Request form (Regular Funding Cycle vs Rapid Funding Process). Please note that you will be asked to resubmit your funding request if it was not submitted using the appropriate form. 
• Step 6: Wait for the review committee's recommendations (see "Review Process" below). 

Review Process and Maximum Funding Standards

All University of Iowa graduate and professional student organizations' requests for funding will be reviewed by the GPSG budget committee, called GPAC (Graduate & Professional Allocation Committee). Regular funding requests are due by the deadlines outlined above and all funding requests for events occurring at least 2 weeks after a regular funding request deadline should utilize this submission process. Rapid funding requests should be submitted a minimum one week before your scheduled event to allow the voting process to occur and a decision to be handed down before any expenditures are made. Any expenditures made prior to funding approval risks being out-of-pocket if your request is denied or only partially approved. GPAC reserves the right to deny voting on rapid funding requests submitted within the one week minimum of the event occurring. When GPAC reviews your application for funds, they rely on annually revised GPAC Funding Guidelines and Tenets:

GPAC Funding Guidelines and Tenets 2024-2025

You should use this document to help ensure you have a complete, and realistic budget proposal. 

GPAC Representatives 2024-2025

The Final Decision

GPAC does not make the final decision on student org funding; they make a recommendation to the GPSG delegates, who are elected representatives of the graduate and professional student body. Because the delegates make the final funding decision, student orgs wishing to contest GPAC's recommendation must make their case directly to the delegates. In order to do so, student orgs must alert the GPAC Chair of their intent to appear before the delegates via email at least 24 hours before GPSG is scheduled to meet. GPSG meetings are posted on the webpage. 

Rules and Regulations 

• Policies Affecting Student Organizations
• GPAC Bylaws

Post Funding Requirements

• Advertising and Marketing

If your student organization was allocated funding from GPAC, your organization must include the GPSG logo on your marketing and advertising paperwork, e.g. fliers, posters etc.

White Logo

GPSG Seal Logo