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The NBMBAA® National PhD Fellowship Program awards fellowships annually to qualified individuals identified through our application process. Recipients are selected based upon their written response to a research topic, most recent grade point average, verbal communication skills, and community involvement. Fellowship amounts range from $2,500 to 10,000.

Key Dates
Accepting Applications  (March 1 -  May 14)
Semi Finalist Interviews (July 6 – July 9)
Winners Notified (August 9 – August  23)

Applicants must:

• be a minority student enrolled in a full-time business, management, or related discipline doctoral program at  an accredited college or university in the United States, or Canada at the time of award (September 2010)
• submit an essay, resume, and transcript 
• be able to demonstrate academic excellence
• be able to demonstrate exceptional leadership potential
• be able to demonstrate strong communication skills
• be actively involved in their local communities through service to others.

Recipients receive:

• Scholarship awards up to $10,000 
• NBMBAA® membership

Additionally some recipients will receive:

• Round-trip airfare & housing to the Annual Conference & Exposition
• Complimentary conference registration 
• Special VIP access to receptions and events at the conference
  

Recipients are required to:

• Agree to participate in limited public relations activities
• Agree to become an active member in a local chapter
• Agree to become a member of the NBMBAA® Scholarship Advisory

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ESSAY
Essays must be submitted through our online process only.

You will be required to submit a competitive research paper on the following topic:

As current PhD candidate, what is the most pressing issue facing the African-American, Hispanic and Native American academicians in your field of study (pressing issue other than there are not enough PhD candidates of color)?

1. How will your entry into the university workforce help in the solving, reversing or neutralizing of this issue?
2. How do you plan to neutralize, solve and /or reverse the trend?
3. What resources outside of academia could be called upon to correct/reverse the trend?
4. How would you suggest using this resource?

The document can be cut and pasted in the essay section of the application.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers' references and format must follow Style Guide of the Academy of Management Journal and the criteria below. Papers that violate these guidelines will be penalized!

• Submitted papers must be original and must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere
• Papers may draw from theory or research.
• The length of papers must not exceed five (5) pages, excluding title page, abstract, exhibits, and reference list.
• Papers will be evaluated by a blind review process. Therefore, please do not include the author's name and affiliation.
• Abstracts of no more than 50 words that state the title and provide a summary of the study, the main results, and the conclusions should be on a separate page.
• All references mentioned in the text must appear in the reference list, and all items in the reference list must be mentioned in the text. Avoid the use of footnotes.

Research papers will be evaluated by the following criteria:

• Are the core ideas original? Important? Provocative? Is the discussion of the relevant literature complete and accurate?
• Are the ideas presented concisely and logically?
• Does the paper advance our understanding of the topic? Is the contribution clear and important?
• Is the paper conceptually adequate and rigorous? Is it technically adequate? Are the method(s) and analyses appropriate?
• Is the paper well written and clearly presented?

RESUME
Resumes must be submitted through our online process only.

TRANSCRIPT(S)
Official transcripts are required for all college coursework.  Please upload an official copy of your most recent transcript.

PHOTOGRAPHS
Please upload a headshot in jpg. The image should be at least 1024x768.