Brown University Diversity Postdoctoral Program

> Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has announced the
> expansion of a program designed to increase diversity among
> postdoctoral fellows and the university's faculty. The program was
> originally established to bring three postdoctoral fellows to campus for
one year.
> Now the university plans to bring six postdoctoral fellows from
> underrepresented minority groups to campus for two years each. It is
> hoped that further expansions to the program will be made in the
> coming years.
>
> The President's Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will recruit
> scholars who are studying issues of race, ethnicity, and gender. The
> program will focus on bringing African American and American Indians
> to campus and also women in scientific disciplines and economics. The
> goal is to retain the postdoctoral students in tenure-track faculty
> positions after their two years as fellows.
>
> Each postdoctoral fellow will teach one course per semester. Two
> thirds of their time will be allocated to expanding their doctoral
> theses into books, conducting additional research, or writing
> scholarly articles for publication.
>
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> http://www.jbhe.com/2014/02/brown-university-expands-postdoc-diversity
> -program/
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