Meta Network for Ph.D. Diversity Directory
A quick glance of institutions and organizations represented in the Meta Network
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. The AAAS Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity is leading a law and diversity project, with participation by the Association of American Universities (AAU), and support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation.
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) strengthens the world's most advanced medical care by supporting the entire spectrum of education, research, and patient care activities conducted by its member institutions. The vision of the AAMC and its members is a healthy nation and world in which America's system of medical education, through continual renewal and innovation, prepares physicians and scientists to meet the nation's evolving health needs.
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Minority Dissertation Fellowship offers doctoral fellowship support to enhance the competitiveness of outstanding minority scholars for academic appointments at major research universities by supporting their conducting education research and by providing mentoring and guidance toward completion of their doctoral studies. This program targets members of racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in higher education.
Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) joins together universities and colleges in the common mission of increasing the number of underrepresented minority student Ph.D. candidates in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs, and positioning minority students to become leaders in STEM fields. Every AGEP alliance employs creative administrative strategies, develops infrastructure, and engages in substantive partnerships with non-doctoral-granting institutions (many minority-serving institutions) to enhance recruitment, retention, and advancement. AGEP is a project of the Institute for Broadening Participation, and is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Brothers of the Academy (BOTA) is a support network for African-American males in graduate school programs and the professoriate. The aim is to nurture productive collaborative scholarship particularly toward the desired end of promotion and tenure among members moving in tenure track positions. BOTA encourages high quality, publishable research and scholarship that focuses upon improving African and African-American peoples, schools, and communities (socially, politically, and economically) that is achieved through research and scholarly activism via collaborative efforts with affiliate colleges universities, and community organizations.
Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School has become a facilitator of innovation and collaboration for researchers, practitioners, and students striving to address structural inequality through institutional transformation. The Center works primarily through projects in different institutional settings to develop cross-cutting frames, strategies and methodologies that can be used to advance full participation and public problem solving through institutional transformation.
Collaborative for Enhancing Diversity in Science (CEDS) is an effort among associations, societies, federal agencies, and private foundations to enhance recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities in science. CEDS offers opportunities for these groups to work together, learn from each other, and develop common approaches to enhancing educational and career opportunities for vulnerable populations. The collaboration is essential to enhancing recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities in science.
The American Psychological Association Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology (CEMRRAT) provides opportunities for researchers of color to engage in solutions and strategies for implementing solutions in communities of color around the nation. CEMRRAT seeks to promote creative transformation of psychology's educational pipeline in ways that would ensure that, in the very near future, the proportion of psychologists who are people of color would significantly increase, and all psychologists would demonstrate at least minimal multicultural competence in training, research, and practice issues.
Community Voices at Morehouse School of Medicine is a national program that provides greater health care access at the local level, and gives the underserved a louder “voice” in the national debate on health care access. Community Voices sites are based in areas that are home to some of our nation’s most underserved populations, such as immigrants and the homeless. The settings are different, but the goals are the same—to increase enrollment of eligible people into public programs and to improve health care access and quality for the underserved by providing models for change and improvement.
Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) is an advocacy organization that promotes and raises federal funding for the social and behavioral sciences. It serves as a bridge between the academic research community and the Washington, D.C. policymaking community. Its members consist of professional associations, scientific societies, universities, and research centers and institutes.
Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) strives to improve and advance graduate education in order to ensure the vitality of intellectual discovery. CGS accomplishes its mission through advocacy, innovative research, and the development and dissemination of best practices.
Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network (ESIN) is a professional network composed of junior and senior investigators and affiliates from universities, foundations and government agencies nationwide. The mission of ESIN is guided by two basic goals: 1) advancing science to eliminate social and health disparities in populations of color; and 2) offering professional development-related programs as well as online tools aimed at fostering greater independence, career success and opportunities for funding for junior investigators.
Ford Foundation aims to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement. The Ford Foundation Fellowship Program is a National Academy of Sciences program that 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. Program awards are offered at the predoctoral, dissertation and postdoctoral levels through a national competition for study in research-based Ph.D. or Sc.D. programs.
Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP) designs and implements strategies to increase access to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education and careers for diverse underrepresented groups. IBP's mission is to make education and careers in science more accessible to students, particularly members of underrepresented groups. Further, to support faculty and administrators as they work to include students from a variety of backgrounds in their programs and to foster an on-going exchange of ideas and resources between individuals and institutions who are working to navigate their future in the STEM fields.
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) works to increase access and success in postsecondary education around the world through unique research and innovative programs that inform key decision makers who shape public policy and support economic and social development.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) supports children, families, and communities, as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Center for Advancing Health (CFAH) conducts research, communicates findings, and advocates for policies that support everyone’s ability to benefit from advances in health science. CFAH is the national program office for the Kellogg Health Scholars Program (KHSP) and provides support for postdoctoral researchers, largely from under-represented minority groups, to investigate the causes of health disparities and to seek policies and interventions that would result in healthy communities. The vision reflects the interconnected roles of research, policy and practice in reducing and eliminating health disparities, and the development of academic, policy, and community leaders, who understand and can influence these related activities.
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) is a premiere program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Interested in remedying the serious shortage of faculty of color in higher education, MMUF aims to create a legacy of qualified and gifted scholars of color who, along with others committed to eradicating racial disparities, will provide opportunities for all students to experience and learn from the perspectives of diverse faculty members. MMUF works to achieve its mission by identifying and supporting students of great promise and helping them to become scholars of the highest distinction.
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is an honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to furthering science and technology and their use for the general welfare. NAS "investigates, examines, experiments, and reports upon any subject of science or art" whenever called upon to do so by any department of the government.
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Fellows is a program created to provide an opportunity for individuals and companies interested in establishing a named scholarship program in support of NACME’s mission to increase the representation of underrepresented minorities in engineering.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Diversity Supplements Program recognizes a unique and compelling need to promote diversity in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences workforce. The NIH expects efforts to diversify the workforce to lead to the recruitment of the most talented researchers from all groups; to improve the quality of the educational and training environment; to balance and broaden the perspective in setting research priorities; to improve the ability to recruit subjects from diverse backgrounds into clinical research protocols; and to improve national capacity to address and eliminate health disparities.
New Connections aims to increase diversity in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) programming through its work with junior investigators and mid-career consultants from historically underrepresented research communities. The OMG Center for Collaborative Learning is the national program office for New Connections. The program is part of the RWJF Building Human Capital portfolio, which aims to develop and retain a diverse, well-trained leadership and workforce in health and healthcare to meet the needs of all Americans.
OMG Center for Collaborative Learning is an independent, nonprofit research and consulting organization working across the country for clients in the philanthropic, nonprofit, and government sectors. OMG is a leader in philanthropic evaluation, strategy research and development, as well as capacity building.
Princeton Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program (PSURE) trains undergraduates from groups that have been historically underrepresented for graduate school and health research careers. The purpose of the program is to motivate and prepare students to make competitive applications to research doctoral programs, with the goal of graduating Ph.D.s who go on to teach and conduct original research.
Project L/EARN is a graduate education preparation program that aims to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups in the fields of health, mental health, and health policy research, thereby expanding the breadth of health research to include a broader range of ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic issues, concerns and perspectives. Project L/EARN is a collaborative effort of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the Institute of Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research; and Rutgers University.
The Ph.D. Completion Project supports scholarly research and intellectual growth of fellows with the goal of improving their success in attaining tenure. The Ph.D. Completion Project is a seven-year, grant-funded project that addresses the issues surrounding Ph.D. completion and attrition. The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), Pfizer Inc., and the Ford Foundation, have provided funding to select research universities to create intervention strategies and pilot projects, and to evaluate the impact of these projects on doctoral completion rates and attrition patterns. The Ph.D. Completion Project aims to produce the most comprehensive and useful data on attrition from doctoral study and completion of Ph.D. programs yet available.
The PhD Project mission is to increase the diversity of corporate America by increasing the diversity of business school faculty. The project works to attract African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans to business Ph.D. programs, and to provide a network of peer support on their journey to becoming professors. The PhD project is administered, founded and funded by the KPMG Foundation.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. For more than 30 years the Foundation has brought experience, commitment, and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the health and health care of those it serves. When it comes to helping Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need, the Foundation expects to make a difference in your lifetime.
RWJF University of New Mexico Center for Health Policy works to increase the diversity of those with formal training in the fields of economics, political science, and sociology, who engage in health services and health care policy research. The goal of the center is to increase the number of social and health scientists Latino, American Indian, and other racial and ethnic communities underrepresented in these fields. The RWJF Center is a collaborative project between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of New Mexico.
Sisters of the Academy provides the Research BootCamp© to support the development of graduate student dissertation research, and to help junior faculty further the preparation of manuscripts for submission to peer-reviewed journals. The aim is to increase the completion rates of graduate students pursuing terminal degrees in their field, and improve the likelihood that Black women will get tenure and promotion by assisting in the development of their scholarship.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has long supported students interested in careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). One area of focus supports research on the factors that affect STEM career choices. The Foundation additionally provides fellowship funds to encourage underrepresented minorities to pursue STEM careers.
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works with member states to improve public pre-K-12 and higher education. The SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program offers financial support and other services to doctoral scholars nationwide. SREB also hosts the annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, the largest gathering of minority doctoral scholars in the country.
Think Tank for African American Progress is a national convening of policy makers, community activists, researchers, and practitioners, for the purpose of developing and strategically implementing solutions for challenges confronting African American communities.
Urban Institute gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues—to foster sound public policy and effective government.
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (WWNF) seeks to build upon its legacy of excellence, maintaining its historic commitments and attacking one of the nation’s most urgent contemporary challenges: the pervasive achievement gap between Americans, by race and income. Using the prestige of its historic fellowships as well as harnessing new resources, the foundation has created what it hopes will be an influential fellowship to recruit exceptionally able men and women to careers in high school teaching through Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships.