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Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
500 5th St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
Toll Free Number 800-624-6242
Phone Number (202)334-2000
Emails news@nas.edu
research@nas.edu
Award Type Fellowship
Purpose To increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity; to maximize 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.
Focus Area and ethnic studies; Interdisciplinary studies; Peace studies.
Qualifications Applicants must be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and U.S. permanent residents (holders of a Permanent Resident Card).
Criteria Recipients are selected based on the 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 or university level; and likelihood of using the diversity of human experience as an educational resource in teaching and scholarship; recipients are also selected based on the academic records, essays, letters of recommendation, the application itself, and other appropriate materials that meet the eligibility requirements and the selection criteria.
Duration Annual.
Number of Awards Varies.
To Apply Applicants must be submit complete the online application form including personal and contact information.
Deadline January 5.
For more information http://www.nationalacademies.org
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