UC’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hailed as a national model for faculty inclusivity
December 9, 2024 •
UCLA’s Thomas E. Lifka Professor of History and director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies Kelly Lytle Hernández is among the alumni of the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
A program launched four decades ago to diversify faculty at the University of California has today grown into the largest and most influential academic pipeline program of its kind in the nation.
More than 365 faculty across the UC system have participated in the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, including nearly 14 percent of all ladder-rank faculty hired over the last five years from groups underrepresented in academia.
“No other postdoctoral program has been as successful as this one has in advancing diversity of the professoriate,” said UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., during a recent celebration of the program’s 40th anniversary. “This program has national impact as a model for postdoctoral training and conversion to faculty.”
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