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. The program offers predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships, and supports study in a range of disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Applications for 2012 have ended. Information regarding the 2013 fellowship is forthcoming. Visit the website for more information.