Dr. Rhacel Parrenas of Sociology will be leading a workshop on Monday, October 1 at noon on applying for a Ford Fellowship (doctoral, dissertation and post-doctoral).

The event will be in KAP 445. Lunch will be provided by the Graduate School. Please RSVP to lpulido@usc.edu if you will be attending so we can order the right amount of food.

The Mission of the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program is as follows:

Through its Fellowship Programs, 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.

For more information on the Ford Program, please visit:
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/fordfellowships/