The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is
accepting applications for the 2020 Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs.
Eligibility and online application information are available on the Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs website.
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.
Eligibility Requirements:
U. S. citizens, U.S.
nationals, 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 Program (DACA) 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 in a research-based field of science, social science,
or humanities
Eligibility 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.
Stipends:
Predoctoral--$24,000 per year for three years
Dissertation--$25,000 for one year
Postdoctoral--$45,000 for one year
Awardees
will have expenses paid to attend at least one Conference of Ford
Fellows. Approximately 70 predoctoral, 36 dissertation, and 24
postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded.
Application Deadline Dates:
Predoctoral: December 17, 2019 (5:00 PM EST)
Dissertation: December 10, 2019 (5:00 PM EST)
Postdoctoral: December 10, 2019 (5:00 PM EST)
Supplementary Materials receipt deadline for submitted applications is January 7, 2020 (5:00 PM EST)
