Faculty Forward Post Doctoral and Visiting Scholars Program

The University of New Mexico’s Faculty Forward Post-Doctoral and Visiting Scholars Program (FF) is available to support up to three post-doctoral fellow, research associate, or visiting scholar positions that would enhance diversity and equal opportunity on the Albuquerque central campus. Candidates must be nominated by UNM central campus tenure-granting academic units that wish to hire them for 12-month appointments. Candidates may not apply directly.

The original DiCE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in the 1990s to encourage outstanding minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of New Mexico. The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields who are potential candidates for central campus tenure-track faculty appointments that would contribute to strategic hiring goals.

Departments are expected to mentor and support high-potential candidates to prepare them for tenure-track assistant professor appointments at UNM. In addition, departments on central campus will be encouraged to apply for FF bridge funding for hiring tenure-system faculty whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity at UNM after candidates’ successful completion of the Faculty Forward Postdoc & Visiting Scholars Program.

On September 19, 2025, an Executive Proclamation was issued wherein, for certain H-1B sponsorships, employers would be required to submit a $100,000 payment in order for such sponsorships to be considered (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/). Due to budgetary constraints, neither the Nominating Department nor the Division for Change and Empowerment at the University of New Mexico are able to select finalists for this Faculty Forward program who will require sponsorship for employment authorization that will require expenditure of the $100,000 payment.

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