Further Resources
SILCS is generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
SILCS is also a member of the Group for Underrepresented Students in Higher Education and Research (GUSHER). GUSHER is a consortium of summer research institutes dedicated to enhancing the recruitment, retention, and success of students from underrepresented groups in graduate study in the humanities.
Other Diversity Programs
- IRT (Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers). This program is open to rising or graduating college seniors.
- REDI (Rutgers English Diversity Institute). REDI is open to students and recent graduates who are interested in graduate study in Literatures in English.
- Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. Eligible fellows are selected in their sophomore year.
- PHD (Program for Humanities Development). This program is open to sophomores, and is a two-year commitment.
- SREB (Southern Regional Education Board) State Doctoral Scholars Program. This program is for graduate students already enrolled in a doctoral program.
- American Indian Graduate Center. This center has scholarship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
- FMS (The Future of Minority Studies Research Project). This program, put on by Cornell, is for graduate students and postdoctoral faculty.
- Rutgers Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy. This program is open to sophomores and juniors, though others are eligible too.
Wheaton information:
Resources for English Graduate Study:
- Report of the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of African American Faculty members in English [PDF]
- Review of Scholarship on the Status of African American Faculty Members in English [PDF]
- Modern Language Association
- Association of Departments of English
- MLA Guide to Doctoral Programs in English and Other Modern Languages
- Advice to Graduate Students: From Application to Career
- Self-Study Guide for Doctoral Programs
- MLA Resources page
- College Language Association
- Find the Graduate School that's right for you
- The Black Collegian Online
Publications:
- Inside Higher Education
- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Programs in Math and Science:
- SUMSRI (Summer Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Research Institute)
- Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual
- Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
- Women in Math Project
- CAARMS (The Council for African and Americans in the Mathematical Sciences)
- SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science)
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society
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