Partnerships for Access, Community, and Excellence

The Building Bridges to the Doctorate program attracts a diverse student body into doctoral education—especially students from historically underrepresented groups—and fully funds students’ master’s educations.

The Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program was launched in 2015 to increase opportunities for students interested in pursuing doctoral degrees in the humanities.

MSI Connect is part of the Rackham Graduate School’s Minority Serving Institutions Initiative and is designed to support graduate students at U-M that come from minority serving institutions (MSIs). Our team is composed of graduate student ambassadors, coordinators, and Rackham staff who work together to build a community of support for MSI alumni.

The PACE Fellowship recognizes accomplished doctoral students and faculty mentors who have demonstrated commitment to program climate and student success. Students and faculty are nominated together by their department representatives. Graduate students are selected based on their scholarly accomplishments and efforts to increase student climate, success, and community building within their field. Faculty mentors are selected based on their efforts to increase student success and climate within their department.

The Rackham Merit Fellowship (RMF) Program helps sustain the academic excellence and inclusiveness of the Michigan graduate community, one that embraces students with diverse experiences and goals, and who come from many educational, cultural, geographic, and familial backgrounds. By offering this named prestigious fellowship to students, we aim to promote the values of diversity and inclusion by encouraging the admission of students who represent a broad array of life experiences and perspectives, because this enhances the quality of the intellectual environment for all students.

The Rackham Merit Fellowship (RMF) Connection is a program designed for newly admitted master’s and doctoral students who are recipients of a Rackham Merit Fellowship.

The Rackham Recruitment Grants program supports the innovative efforts of faculty, staff, and students in recruiting highly qualified graduate students with a wide breadth of experiences and interests.

The University of Michigan Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) is designed for outstanding undergraduate students who are underrepresented in their field of study.