Funding Opportunities to Support Diverse Recruitment
"Recruiting a diverse faculty is essential to achieving our goals of excellence in education, research and patient care. Students need role models, research needs a diversity of ideas and patients need to be treated by those sensitive to their particular needs."
Hannah Valantine, MD,
Senior Associate Dean
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
The following are resources available to search committees through the Office of the Provost.
Faculty Incentive Fund
The Faculty Incentive Fund supports incremental appointments of qualified individuals who would bring diversity to the faculty, including women and minority scholars in disciplines in which they are underrepresented. The funds may also be appropriate for those who would bring additional dimensions to the university's research and teaching programs. In some cases these individuals are not in the precise field in which the department is searching but are in fields that are appropriate for Stanford.
For more information, contact Faculty Affairs at .
Gabilan Provost's Discretionary Fund
The Gabilan Provost's Discretionary Fund is available for the recruitment and retention of faculty in the sciences and engineering, particularly women. Department chairs and deans work directly with the Provost's Office to secure these funds. For more information, contact the Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Diversity.
The above descriptions are adapted from "Building on Excellence, A guide to Recruiting and Retaining an Excellent and Diverse Faculty at Stanford University," a 2005 publication of the Office of the Provost. Download the entire guide (PDF).