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Welcome to MinorityPostdoc.org

This is the premier web portal on the minority postdoctoral experience featuring news, articles, resources, and events about jobs, career advice, professional development, funding, fellowships, mentoring, and diversity issues.

Launching Your Academic Job Search webinar on Saturday 9/26

photo headshot of Bill LindstaedtJoin us on Saturday September 26 for a webinar about how to prepare your applications for a faculty job. Our presenter is Bill Lindstaedt, (retired) Asst Vice Chancellor of Career Advancement of the University of California, San Francisco.

His presentation topic "Launching Your Academic Job Search" is based on UCSF career resources and their Academic Career Readiness research. Members of our email newsletter should review the latest issue for webinar registration instructions. We thank the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for their major support.

Jobs & Other Advertisements

MinorityPostdoc.org is a niche marketing site with a diverse readership. The Job listings page has a complete roster of institutions who are reaching out to expand the diversity of their candidate applicant pools for professional/faculty or graduate/postdoc positions. Below is a subset of our advertisers.

University of Chicago

Articles
Uncovering the Invisible Minority Postdoc Talent Pool

Ethnic minorities are underrepresented among faculty in academia. This situation motivates interventions that promote minority students to pursue a doctoral degree. However, the postdoctoral population is the actual talent pool for a faculty search especially in the STEM disciplines.

Events
American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
October 15 2026 - October 17 2026
: Portland, OR

Readings
What Graduate Students Want to Know About Community Colleges, Part 1
Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2012

...the fact is, community colleges have been hiring more and more Ph.D.'s—mostly because they can, given the glut of Ph.D.'s on the market, but also because many two-year colleges these days aspire to become four-year institutions.

Our Contact List has 1,000+ Emails!

Our Monthly Newsletter Contact List has over 1,000 emails! To put that number in perspective, NSF estimates that there are only 3,000 underrepresented minority postdocs in the USA. The word clouds below show the institutions and names present in our email contact list.

names of Doctoral Directory members institutions of Doctoral Directory members