Latest PIF recipient
Summer 2021 Competition
In a special summer competition, Monique Schlichtman, a rising second-year doctoral student in Public Administration, has been selected for the PIF fellowship.
Acknowledging the lack of diversity in faculty around the country, the Graduate College sought to build a program at UIC to recruit and support outstanding historically underrepresented PhD students, who are interested in pursuing careers as faculty members. Our intent is to support these students with competitive funding packages, skills and professional development opportunities, and mentoring in order to ensure success in graduate school and in their future careers. The result is the Pipeline to an Inclusive Faculty (PIF) Program. The average cohort is five students across the diversity of UIC's disciplines and recipients are normally selected from the Access to Excellence and University Fellowship recruitment pools. Occasionally, the Graduate College runs summer (off-cycle) competitions in order to add more scholars to the fold.
Schlichtman will join the 2020-2021 cohort.