PFTF Application Form | GradPathways Institute for Professional Development

Name

Preferred Name

Pronouns

Address

Address 2

City/Town

State/Province

ZIP/Postal Code

UC Davis E-mail Address (i.e. @ucdavis.edu)

Cell or Home Phone

Student or Postdoc I.D.

Program/Department

Who is the department or graduate group chair for your program (graduate students only)?

If Graduate Student, enter date when you advanced to candidacy

First quarter of graduate enrollment or postdoctoral employment at UC Davis

Overall Graduate GPA (graduate students only)

Your Recommender's Name

Please provide the name of your major professor if a graduate student, or your principal investigator if a postdoctoral scholar. NOTE: The applicant must contact the recommender to request completion of the recommendation form. PFTF does not contact recommenders.

Please Answer the Following Questions:

Project proposals are one part of the selection criteria for admission to the Professors for the Future (PFTF) program. The purpose of the project is to provide PFTF fellows with an opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills and to explore the university beyond the boundaries of their disciplinary areas of interest.

More broadly, the goal of these projects is to pilot new approaches to strengthening the path to the professoriate for students of diverse backgrounds. Projects will therefore address recruitment of graduate students from partner institutions, retention of graduate students and postdocs, and preparation of graduate students and postdocs to become faculty at diverse institutions.

PFTF fellows will work in project teams with other fellows and faculty from UCD and partner Hispanic-Serving Institutions, but are not expected to identify these teams in advance. For the application, PFTF asks applicants to be venturesome and creative in suggesting project ideas, with the understanding that final projects will be further revised and developed as part of a team in the fellowship year. If you have additional questions, please contact gpi@ucdavis.edu.

1. Which of the following areas would you like to address as part of a project team? (Pathways to graduate school, Public engagement for research, Mental and physical wellness, Culture and Community, Undergraduate teaching and mentoring, Skills for success in academia)

2. What specific need or problem experienced by graduate students/aspiring graduate students and/or postdoctoral scholars do you seek to address?

3. Propose and describe how your project will address this need or problem.

4. How would your project address the recruitment and/or the retention of graduate students or postdoctoral scholars from diverse backgrounds?

5. What is the title of your proposed project?

6. Please describe your contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

7. Please discuss your reasons for applying to the Professors for the Future program and what you hope to gain from this experience.

8. Optional - If you have an idea or suggestion for a UC Davis or Hispanic-serving institute faculty member(s) whom you wish to partner with please share their name, title, institution and email address here.

Please upload your C.V. We recommend including service and leadership experience.

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