The Minority Faculty Fellowship Program's 12th Year!

In 1986, the Bloomington Faculty Council expressed its commitment to increasing the diversity of the faculty on the Bloomington campus by establishing the Minority Faculty Fellowship Program. Sponsored by the IU Vice-President and Chancellor's office, MFFP has just completed its twelfth successful year. Since its inception, a total of sixty-five fellows and thirty-three I.U.B. departments have participated in the program. Some former fellows and applicants are now full-time faculty members at IUB and some of the other branches of the IU system.

Directed by Alberto Torchinsky, Dean of Latino Affairs and a professor in the Mathematics Department, the Minority Faculty Fellowship Program brings African American, Hispanic American and Native American scholars to the campus for summer or academic-year appointments. The program's primary goals are to increase minority representation on the Bloomington campus, to introduce promising new scholars to the academic departments and programs here, and to give minority scholars the experience of teaching and conducting research at one of the top-ranked research universities in the country.