FORD FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS

  • Other Source or Multiple Sponsors
  • National Academies of Sciences
  • https://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/index.htm

Program Overview

  • Through its Fellowship Programs, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Predoctoral, Dissertation, and Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a National competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation. Eligibility to apply for a Ford fellowship is limited to: •All U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and U.S. permanent residents (holders of a Permanent Resident Card), as well as individuals granted deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program1, political asylees, and refugees, regardless of race, National origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation, •Individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement (such as grade point average, class rank, honors or other designations), and •Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level. 1Eligibility includes individuals with current status under the DACA Program, as well as individuals whose status may have lapsed but who continue to meet all the USCIS guidelines for DACA available here. Receipt of the fellowship award is conditioned upon each awardee providing satisfactory documentation that he or she meets all the eligibility requirements. Awards will be made for study in research-based Ph.D. or Sc.D. programs; practice oriented degree programs are not eligible for support (see eligible fields). Prospective applicants should carefully the eligibility requirements, the terms of the fellowship awards, application instructions and other information pertaining to the individual fellowship (Predoctoral, Dissertation, or Postdoctoral) for which they are applying. In addition to the fellowship award, new Ford Fellows are invited to attend the Conference of Ford Fellows, a unique National conference of a select group of high-achieving scholars committed to diversifying the professoriate and using diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

Program Benefits

  • Predoctoral, Dissertation, and Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a National competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation. Awards will be made for study in research-based Ph.D. or Sc.D. programs; practice oriented degree programs are not eligible for support (see eligible fields). Prospective applicants should carefully the eligibility requirements, the terms of the fellowship awards, application instructions and other information pertaining to the individual fellowship (Predoctoral, Dissertation, or Postdoctoral) for which they are applying. In addition to the fellowship award, new Ford Fellows are invited to attend the Conference of Ford Fellows, a unique National conference of a select group of high-achieving scholars committed to diversifying the professoriate and using diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

Program Contact

Location

  • Northeast
  • 500 5th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
500 5th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

Type Of Program

Audience

  • Faculty

  • Graduate

  • Postdoc

Discipline(s)

  • Education

  • Humanities

  • Social/Behavioral Sciences

  • STEM

History

Established

1979

Individuals Served

  • 3,001-4,000

Notable Alumni

Keivan Stassun, PhD (Stevenson Professor of Astrophysics, College of Arts & Science, and codirector, the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to- PhD Bridge Program, Vanderbilt University), Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD (ninth president of Spelman College), Carol Anderson, PhD (Charles Howard Candler Professor and chair of African American studies, Emory University), Erika T. Camacho, PhD (program director, National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program), and Ron Mickens, PhD (recipient, 2018 Tapia Prize, Fuller E. Callaway Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics, Clark Atlanta University

Research, Roles & Responsibilities

Identity & Inclusion

  • Typically there are cohorts of fellows at larger institutions who often support each other
  • annual conference for 1st and 2nd year fellows; senior Fellows hold regional meetings (alumni networking); support from regional liaisons

Diversity Groups (Social Identity)

  • Foreign Born (E.G. Undocumented Immigrants; Non-Citizen Of The US)

  • Race-Ethnicity

Inclusionary Practices/Activities

  • Creation Of A Safe Space/ Climate/Environment

  • Development Of Academic Sense Of Belongingness (E.G. Meetings With Doctoral Scholars, Peer Researchers, Exchanges At Academic Conferences)

Voice

Mentoring Components

  • Mentors Exchange Social Displays Of Scientific Knowledge And Practices

  • Mentors Provide Support With Academic Or Discipline Specific Knowledge Through Direct Teaching

  • Mentors Provide Support With Goal Setting And Or Career Planning

Empowering Activities

  • Feeder Pathways

  • Mentoring Opportunities

Expectation

  • From the most recent survey data - 98% degree completion; 87% faculty positions
  • The goal of the program is for completion of the doctoral degree and attaining a position in academia. we survey our Fellows to document completion and career progression
  • sponsor receive an annual report; we do regular surveys for both quantitative and qualitative outcomes, often focused on impact

Key Performance Indicators

degree completion and career progression

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This material is based upon work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. and 1818458 and 2010676. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed on this site are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation

 

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