Funding
Through its Fellowship Programs, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties. The competitions for their predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships are now open, and the first deadline is November 10, 2016.
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, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to 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 citizens, nationals, and permanent residents (holders of a Permanent Resident Card) of the United States, as well as individuals granted deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, 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.
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 read 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, Ford Fellows are eligible to attend the Conference of Ford Fellows.
2017 Predoctoral application deadline: November 17, 2016 (5 p.m. EST)
2017 Dissertation and Postdoctoral application deadlines: November 10, 2016 (5 p.m. EST)
Supplementary Materials receipt deadline (all levels): January 10, 2017 (5 p.m. EST)
Application Links: The Ford Foundation Fellowship Applications site is here.