The Sloan Foundation will include in the Ph.D. component of its Minority Ph.D. Program only mathematics, natural science, and engineering faculty in whom we come to have confidence that they can successfully recruit, mentor and graduate underrepresented minority students (African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans) with Ph.D.s. Usually we look for faculty with a record of success in graduating minority students with Ph.D.s. However, for faculty who have not had an opportunity to work with minority Ph.D. students, we look for other indicators to gain the necessary confidence. We will usually include young minority faculty who are interested in participating. The Foundation's intention is to increase the number of minority Ph.D.s, not to help faculty maintain their current level.

At the time that the Foundation decides to include faculty in the program, it will inform the faculty how many Sloan Scholarships we will reserve for their students in the coming year. This will be equal to the number of additional minority Ph.D. students that the Foundation concludes the faculty are likely to recruit for the coming year and will be based on the past record of the faculty, the recruitment plan presented, and the faculty's own estimate of this number. The number of Scholarships that we will commit to award during each subsequent admissions cycle will be adjusted year to year, based in part on performance in the prior admissions cycles.

Each year participating faculty suggest to their incoming minority Ph.D. students that they apply to the Sloan Foundation for a Sloan Scholarship. The Foundation provides a form to the students through the faculty for that purpose. To be eligible for consideration as a Sloan Scholar, a student must be African American, Hispanic American, or Native American, either a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and newly recruited to work with one of the participating faculty. In cases where enrollment must be in a masters degree program initially, the student and the faculty must indicate a shared expectation that the student will continue to a Ph.D. following the earning of the masters degree. If that shared expectation does not exist when the student first enrolls, then he/she would not be eligible initially but would become eligible whenever the student and faculty reach that shared expectation.

The Sloan Foundation selects from among the applying eligible students for each participating group of faculty those who will be awarded Sloan Scholarships and makes the awards. The students selected will be those for whom receipt of the scholarship is judged to be most beneficial towards the successful completion of their Ph.D. The amount of the Scholarship varies and for each group of students working with a particular group of faculty is $38,500 multiplied by the historical retention rate of that group of faculty. Retention rate is computed as follows:


When a student becomes a Sloan Scholar, the amount of the Scholarship becomes available to the student on a one-time basis. The Scholar may draw on this money at any time during his/her tenure in the Ph.D. program to cover the cost of tuition, stipend, books, summer support while working toward the Ph.D., travel to professional meetings, or other approved purposes. Scholars are required to discuss with their faculty and others involved with their financial support when and for what purposes they should draw upon their Sloan Scholarship. Funds are provided by the Sloan Foundation directly to the Scholars at the beginning of each semester or quarter. Scholars are required to report on how the funds were used and on their academic progress at the end of each semester or quarter throughout their period of enrollment. Information on academic progress must be verified by the university.

To encourage faculty in the program to actively recruit potential Sloan Scholars, each Scholarship awarded will trigger a recruiting grant of $2,000 to the faculty or designated university office. This money may be used for any purpose related to further recruitment of underrepresented minority Ph.D. students, except that it cannot be used to provide direct benefits to minority students that would not be available to other students. For example, the money may be used to produce and disseminate promotional material, to fund faculty's, student's or other recruiters' travel for the purpose of recruiting minority Ph.D. students, but not to bring prospective minority students to campus unless other money is also available to bring non?minority students to campus.


How Faculty Can Become Part of the Ph.D. component of the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program

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Note: The Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program is currently fully subscribed and the Foundation is not accepting new applications to participate at this time.