Clifford D. Clark Diversity Fellowships are prestigious fellowships offered to prospective graduate students who have been newly admitted to a doctoral program at Binghamton University and will be pursuing their degree full-time. By providing a release from teaching responsibilities, the Clark Fellowship is intended to (i) recruit and retain disadvantaged doctoral students, (ii) ease the transition into a full-time doctoral program, and (iii) accelerate progress in research, scholarship, and creative activities that form the basis of their doctoral dissertation. Top priority will be afforded to incoming doctoral students who would normally be supported by a Teaching Assistantship provided by their home department/program. Individuals who have been admitted to master’s programs, doctoral programs in which there are no teaching responsibilities, or whose degree program does not require a culminating project (thesis or dissertation), will receive secondary consideration.
The single deadline for submitting Clifford D. Clark Diversity Fellowship nominations is February 15th, 2025 for priority funding. The new process is now completely separate from the Slate admissions process. Instead, students who have been admitted to your program can submit an application through an online Clark Fellowship Application form.
In that form, they indicate the email address of their Graduate Director. At that point, the Graduate Director will receive the applicant’s information and can decide to complete the second step in the nomination process, which is also online. We encourage Graduate Directors to recommend new applicants for Fall 2025 to seek the Clark Fellowship through the online application by sharing the webpage above.
There is a limit of two nominations for each department and applicants must be newly admitted students set to start in Fall 2025. Applicants entering a doctoral program with a bachelor’s degree are eligible for 5 years of funding and those entering with a master’s are eligible for 3 years of funding. Applicants entering a master’s program are eligible for 2 years of funding.