Jul 26, 2017 10:00 am
To increase diversity in higher education, the Ford Foundation offers predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships. The goal is three-fold – increasing university’s ethnic and racial diversity, maximizing the educational benefits of diversity, and increasing the number of professors who use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
We talked to three University of Illinois graduate students from across campus who received a Ford Fellowship to learn more about the program.
