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  Meet Our Fellows: Safiyah Muhammad, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow

  Oct 18, 2018 11:45 am

  Ford Fellow Safiyah Muhammad says that she learned to teach from the best – her mom. Her mother homeschooled her before she was old enough to enroll in kindergarten and served as her fourth grade teacher as well. “She never limited me in what I could do. She never told me I was too young. She was my very first and obviously most impactful teacher,” Safiyah said. With the help of the Ford Fellowship, she hopes to channel that feeling into her work as a researcher, teacher, and scholar at Illinois.

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  Meet Our Fellows: Ford Fellows on Campus

  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.