Opportunities
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
The Ford Foundation offers annual diversity fellowships
for predoctoral, postdoctoral, and dissertation-stage
candidates. The fellowships are intended "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" (from the Web site). For information,
visit www7.nationalacademies.org/FORDfellowships/.
Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication
The Intercultural Communication Institute, a nonprofit
organization committed to intercultural communication
as a means of minimizing detrimental cross-group conflict,
offers summer programs at Reed College in Portland,
Oregon. The programs are geared toward beginning, intermediate,
and advanced learners and cover a range of topics, including
campus diversity and global education. Early-bird registration
runs until June 1, 2009. For more information, visit
www.intercultural.org.
Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility
AAC&U's Network for Academic Renewal will host "Educating
for Personal and Social Responsibility: Deepening Student
and Campus Commitments" on October 1-3, 2009, in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The meeting will convene students, administrators,
faculty, and others involved in higher education to
explore practices that support students' development
of moral and ethical reasoning, including the ability
to take seriously the perspectives of others in global
and local contexts. For more information about the conference,
visit www.aacu.org/meetings/PSR09/index.cfm.
