 Founded 1988 with a series of Grants from the Pew
Charitable Trusts (one of 7)
 Reformulated and became self-funding 1998
 Only still functioning of the original 7 consortia
 Minimally staffed with an office on one of the liberal arts college campuses (Macalester, Hope, Grinnell)
 Annual institutional membership of about $12,000

Augustana College
Beloit College
Carleton College
Carthage College
Colorado College
Grinnell College
Gustavus Adolphus College
Hope College
Kalamazoo College
Knox College
Lawrence University
Luther College
Macalester College
Rhodes College
St Olaf College
Trinity University
University of Chicago
Washington University

 Undergraduate Research Symposia
 Faculty Development Workshops
 Short Term Consultations
 Speakers Bureau

 Biological Sciences, Washington University—
October 28-29, 2011
 Physical Sciences, University Of Chicago—
November 4-5, 2011

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New Faculty Workshop - Strategic Planning for
Early Career Success
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Moving Campus Sustainability Forward Through
Collaborative Projects
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Sharing Best Practices for Serving Students and
Faculty at Science and Math Teaching and
Learning Centers

The purpose of this Program is to encourage and support collaborations involving either two individuals, a small group, or two departments. Projects might involve sharing information, instrumentation and facilities or expertise among the faculty members of the Consortium.
The Program grants funds for faculty in a particular area to visit a member campus to:
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http://www.mathsciconsortium.org/

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Founded as Consortium for a Stronger Minority Presence in 1987 with membership of about 15 national liberal arts colleges
 Originally Included Student Recruitment and Fellowship
Programs
 Today the program completely focuses upon Fellowships with membership of 40 liberal arts colleges

The Consortium is committed to increasing the diversity of students, faculty members and curricular offerings at liberal arts colleges with a particular focus on enhancing the diversity of faculty members and of applicants for faculty positions.
The Consortium was founded as an association of liberal arts colleges committed to strengthening the ethnic diversity of students and of faculty members at liberal arts colleges.

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Institutions pay a modest annual fee for administrative support, advertising, and annual meeting costs.
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Applications are submitted electronically to DePauw
University which acts as the application coordinator for the Consortium. DePauw shares all applications with each of the Consortium member schools. Each
Consortium member school handles the interview and selection process in accordance with its own internal selection processes.
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Member colleges pay the entire cost of interviewing, salary and benefits, and professional development support for fellows who are appointed.

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In recent years we have received about 200-350 applications each year and appointed about 25-
50 fellows at member institutions.
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Fall 2011 (32 fellows)
Fall 2010 (32 fellows)
Fall 2009 (29 fellows)
Fall 2008 (49 fellows)
Fall 2007 (36 fellows)
Fall 2006 (40 fellows)
Fall 2005 (28 fellows)

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Applications are invited in all disciplines of the liberal arts and engineering.
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Recipients should have no more than five years of teaching or relevant experience before holding a fellowship.
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Dissertation completion and postdoctoral fellowship awards are available.

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Colleges provide mentors for Fellows
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A Mentoring Guide
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CFD hosts an annual meeting of fellows and deans at a member campus.

The early goals of the Consortium with regard to faculty diversity included encouraging U.S. citizens who are members of under-represented minority groups to complete their graduate programs and to consider faculty employment in liberal arts colleges.
The Consortium now invites applications for dissertation fellowships and post-doctoral fellowships from those who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents who will contribute to increasing the diversity of member colleges by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximizing the educational benefits of diversity and/or increasing the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of students.

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Bard College of Simons
Rock
Bowdoin College
Bryn Mawr College
Carleton College
Centre College
College of Wooster, The
Colorado College
Denison University
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DePauw University
Dickinson College
Gettysburg College
Goucher College
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Harvey Mudd College
Haverford College
Hobart and William
Smith Colleges

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Lafayette College
Lawrence University
Luther College
Macalester College
Mount Holyoke College
Muhlenberg College
New College of Florida
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Reed College
Rhodes College
University of Richmond
Ripon College
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Scripps College
Skidmore College
Smith College
Southwestern University
St. Olaf College
Swarthmore College
Trinity College, Hartford
CT
Vassar College
Wellesley College
Willamette University

DePauw University (previously Grinnell,
Swarthmore) e-mail:jgriswold@depauw.edu
Academic Affairs Office phone: 765-658-6595
305 Harrison Hall fax: 765-658-4553
7 E. Larabee Street
Greencastle, IN 46135 website: http://www.depauw.edu/admin/acadaffairs/cfd/

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