LSA Collegiate Fellowship Program
Faculty Hiring Initiatives at the Assistant and Early Associate Levels
The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) at the University of Michigan (U-M) offers its students an outstanding undergraduate education in the liberal arts at a premier research institution, and is dedicated to building a broadly diverse and inclusive scholarly environment.
In 2016, as part of a 5-year DEI strategic plan, LSA announced that a newly created Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program would recruit 50 extraordinarily promising scholars whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education. The program offers support to fellows to prepare them for tenure-track faculty appointments in LSA; this includes community-building activities, professional development and mentoring, and support for teaching and research. The program has been highly competitive; between 2016 and 2023, 5,668 applications were received. As of 2024, the program has been incredibly successful with 60 total hires, out of which 55 have or will transition into tenure-track assistant professor positions in LSA. The fellows were selected for their outstanding scholarship, as judged by their departments, and for their commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the academy. They are also exceptionally diverse in their respective research, scholarship, and identities.
Building on the success of this program, LSA will continue the Collegiate Fellowship faculty hiring initiative as part of its second 5-year DEI Strategic Plan, which launched in September 2023. In collaboration with the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID), the LSA Collegiate Fellowship Program aims to hire 32 exceptional scholars who are committed to building a diverse intellectual community over the next five years. Scholars can be hired as early-career scholars not yet in tenure track positions, or as early-in-rank associate professors.
In academic year 2024-2025, this faculty hiring initiative seeks to recruit exceptional faculty at both the assistant and early associate level. For more details, including deadlines for the 2024-2025 application cycle, see the webpage dedicated to each of the two hiring mechanisms.