This Office of the Provost initiative will provide supplemental research funding to facilitate STEM cluster hiring across the university, particularly in units that grapple with yielding the highly sought-after underrepresented candidates that they have identified for faculty positions.

More details may be found here.

Primary Academic Unit

Secondary Academic Unit

Please upload a proposal, from the Dean (and Department Chair, if applicable) that includes the following (each section denoted with a separate header):

• Qualifications, accomplishments, future promise of the proposed cluster members
• Target area of STEM scholarship, including how the cluster members will collaborate to enhance work at the university and/or lead new, innovative scholarship
• Potential of the cluster members to contribute to the diversity goals of the Department/School
• Process by which the cluster members will be selected, including the anticipated qualifications of any proposed new hires.
• Mentoring and support efforts the hiring unit will undertake to support the professional career development of faculty members included in the proposed cluster. If you are proposing to recruit a senior candidate, provide a statement of the steps that will be taken to facilitate a successful transition into the hiring unit.

Please upload a statement of School’s progress in achieving its three-year diversity goals and how this application will advance the School’s diversity plans:

Please upload the candidates' curriculum vitae: 

Proposed Budget

Please use the template below to upload a budget table that details the standard research package that will be offered to hires for proposed members of the cluster. Additionally, please specify how the STEM Cluster research supplement will be used to augment the standard/ existing research package. 

CLICK HERE to download the budget table template.

Please Note:

• We recognize that the proposed budget is based on your estimate of what it will cost to recruit the candidate. The actual budget, and Office of the Provost award, will be based on the accepted offer letter.