ANNOUNCEMENT


Date:	 28 September 2006

To: 	 All UF Graduate Coordinators and Staff

From:  Dr. Laurence B. Alexander 
	 UF Graduate School Interim Associate Dean
	 UF Office of Graduate Minority Programs
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Re:    FORD FOUNDATION DIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS INFORMATION SESSION


Dr. Ray Gamble from the National Academies will hold an information session
on Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships from 9:35 a.m. to 10:25 a.m. (third
period) on Thursday, 5 October 2006 in Room 282 of the J. Wayne Reitz Union
on the UF campus.

Dr. Gamble will discuss fellowship opportunities for pre-doctoral,
dissertation and postdoctoral students who want to enter the professoriate.
Through its Diversity Fellowships Program, the Ford Foundation aims to
increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by
increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximizing the educational
benefits of diversity, and increasing the number of professors who can and
will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all
students.

Stipends for pre-doctoral fellowships are $20,000 to the fellow and $3,000
institutional allowance every year for three years; dissertation stipends
are $21,000 for one year; and postdoctoral stipends are $40,000 for one
year, and $1,500 employing institution allowance to be matched by the
employing institution.

The application deadline dates for these fellowships are:

Predoctoral    16 November 2006
Dissertation   30 November 2006
Postdoctoral   30 November 2006

For information on eligibility and an application, visit The National
Academies website at: 

http://nationalacademies.org/fellowships

For a flyer about this meeting, click on this link:

http://gradschool.rgp.ufl.edu/current-files/ford-fellowship.pdf

Thank you.