CONFERENCE OF FORD FELLOWS

Newly awarded Ford Foundation Fellows are invited to attend the annual Conference of Ford Fellows. It is a unique national conference of a select group of high-achieving scholars committed to diversifying the professoriate and using diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Fellows can engage in the following activities:

• Networking with peers and senior Ford Fellows
• Face-to-face conversations with university and academic presses
• One-on-one mentoring 
• Publication and career advancement workshops
• Strategies to complete the dissertation
• Planning an academic career
• Proposal, grant-writing, and research funding advice
• Oral and poster presentations with supportive comments and critiques from colleagues
• Opportunities to interact with established and emerging scholars in diverse fields