NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS OFFICE – 2403 Marie Mount Hall – www.scholarships.umd.edu
Francis DuVinage, Director – Leslie Brice, Assistant Director
Information Session:
Tuesday, July 25, 4:10 pm
The Atlantic Building, Room 1113 - (formerly known as the Computer and Space Sciences Building)
Learn about the Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship, which provides an annual stipend of $24,000 for three years and access to a large network of successful Ford Fellows. The Ford Foundation awards approximately 60 predoctoral fellowships every year. These fellowships provide three years of support for individuals engaged in research-based graduate study leading to a Ph.D.
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.
Interested but not able to attend? Please contact us at scholarships@umd.edu.
Eligibility to apply to a predoctoral fellowship is limited to:
• U.S. Citizens or U.S. Nationals,
• Individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement,
• Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level,
• Individuals planning to enroll in an eligible research-based program leading to a Ph.D. in the United States.
• U.S. Citizens or U.S. Nationals,
• Individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement,
• Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level,
• Individuals planning to enroll in an eligible research-based program leading to a Ph.D. in the United States.
The following will be considered as positive factors in choosing successful candidates:
• Evidence of superior academic achievement
• Degree of promise of continuing achievement as scholars and teachers
• Capacity to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the learning needs of students from diverse backgrounds
• Sustained personal engagement with communities that are underrepresented in the academy and an ability to bring this asset to learning, teaching, and scholarship at the college and university level
• Likelihood of using the diversity of human experience as an educational resource in teaching and scholarship
• Evidence of superior academic achievement
• Degree of promise of continuing achievement as scholars and teachers
• Capacity to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the learning needs of students from diverse backgrounds
• Sustained personal engagement with communities that are underrepresented in the academy and an ability to bring this asset to learning, teaching, and scholarship at the college and university level
• Likelihood of using the diversity of human experience as an educational resource in teaching and scholarship
In addition, membership in one or more of the following groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and longstanding will be considered as a positive factor:
· Alaska Natives (Aleut, Eskimo or other Indigenous People of Alaska)
· Black/African-Americans
· Mexican Americans/Chicanas/Chicanos
· Native American Indians
· Native Pacific Islanders (Hawaiian/Polynesian/Micronesi
· Puerto Ricans
Leslie Brice, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, National Scholarships Office
2403 Marie Mount Hall
University of Maryland, College Park
