Doctoral Grants

Application Deadline: December 7

The HTI will award four (4) outstanding Latino/a doctoral students a $15,000 grant each year during the life of the program. This award is for full-time doctoral students (Ph.D., Ed.D., Th.D. or equivalent only) and requires that the student's institution partners with HTI in providing the student with a tuition scholarship.

This award is aimed at supporting the student for a maximum of two years of full-time coursework. If an applicant applies during the first year of doctoral coursework, the HTI award will be for a one-year period only. This award may not be applied to the year the student is doing his/her doctoral exams, while not taking courses.

In addition to monetary support, the HTI will also provide the doctoral level awardee with a Latina/o faculty member to serve as a mentor who will monitor and encourage the student's progress in the doctoral process.

Qualifications

The following criteria will be used to evaluate applications:

  1. The scholarly promise of the applicant as indicated by G.P.A. and G.R.E. scores.
  2. Academic quality of written work submitted with the application.
  3. Recommendations by professors giving witness to the applicant's potential to contribute to the academic community as a scholar.
  4. Recommendations by Latino church/community leaders giving witness to the applicant's commitment and leadership to the Latino community.

Other Criteria

Applicants must be citizens of the United States of America or Canada, or Legal Immigrants (Aliens admitted in the country as lawful permanent residents). Please be advised that Student Visa is considered a nonimmigrant visa. If you need additional information you can visit the US Citizenship and Immigration Services webpage at http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/services/residency/index.htm, or Citizenship and Immigration Canada http://www.cic.gc.ca.

Applicants must be in a school accredited by an agency recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, http://www.chea.org, as full-time students throughout the period of their award.

Applicants should address important critical issues of their disciplines in an analytical, interpretive, or theoretical manner.

Application Procedure

Applicants must include:

  1. A completed HTI application. (To download the application form as a PDF document (376k file), click on the image to the right. The PDF application form is interactive, allowing it to be completed on a computer and then printed for submission. To view the application form, you need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this application already, you may download it, free, by clicking on the Get Acrobat Reader button at the bottom of this page.)
  2. A one-page vita which highlights your academic, church, and community related activities and accomplishments.
  3. A one-page vocational statement explaining how your doctoral degree will help to address the needs of the Latino community.
  4. One significant piece of written academic work relevant to your area of interest which will be reviewed by the Selection Committee in the interview. (NOTE: Paper should be no more than 10-12 pages; in English, double space, and 1 inch margin on each side.)
  5. List of publications in print.
  6. GRE scores (www.gre.org). These can be sent directly to the HTI office--use institution code #5308 when you request your scores on the exam form.
  7. Official transcripts from colleges, seminaries, and/or universities attended. To be sent directly to the HTI by the school. The deadline to receive these transcripts is November 17.
  8. Letters of reference from two (2) professors who know you as a student. These letters should stress your intellectual and educational scholarly potential to contribute to your discipline. They should be specific about the kind and quality of the work you have done for them. To be sent directly to the HTI by the professors. The deadline to receive these letters is November 17.
  9. Letters of reference from two (2) leaders within the Latino church/community. These letters should stress your involvement with the Latino community as a theological/religious leader. To be sent directly to the HTI by the leaders. The deadline to receive these letters is November 17.

To facilitate the processing of your application, you MUST send items 1-5 on unstapled, unfolded, standard (8.5" x 11") paper. Print should be dark and crisp for copying. Applications not received in this manner will not be processed.