The University of Michigan and the National Institutes of Health will jointly invest $79 million to support and recruit 30 new faculty members to the Ann Arbor campus. This is part of a nationwide effort to enhance inclusion and equity across the biomedical and health sciences community.

The University of Michigan seeks outstanding scholars for new tenure-track assistant professor faculty positions as part of the 2024 Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-PACT) Program. This hiring program, funded by the University of Michigan and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), aims to recruit faculty with a demonstrated and ongoing commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) via their scholarship, teaching, and/or service activities with research interests suitable for funding by the NIH. This call is part of a broader university effort to enhance inclusion and equity across the biomedical and health sciences community. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or terminal degree conferred by July 1, 2025, and must never have had a tenure-track faculty appointment.

The following schools/units are participating in the program: Dentistry, Engineering, Institute for Social Research, Kinesiology, Life Sciences Institute, Literature, Science & the Arts, Medical School, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Social Work. The application deadline will vary by school and unit.  Please see the M-PACT website for program details, application components, eligibility criteria, and application portal.

About University of Michigan M-PACT

U-M launched the Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-PACT) with a five-year, $15.8 million grant from the National Institutes for Health Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (NIH FIRST) initiative, along with a $63.7 million university investment in June 2023. The mission of M-PACT is to achieve greater inclusive excellence in the biomedical and health sciences at the University of Michigan and beyond. M-PACT will achieve its goal of inclusive excellence by recruiting 30 new tenure-track assistant professors with a demonstrated commitment and expertise in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) via their research, teaching, and/or service activities across 11 biomedical and health science schools and colleges across the University. Also, the program will help to support the 30 new hires up through tenure by creating a supportive ecosystem that will provide the scholars with cutting-edge mentoring, relevant professional development experiences, and the appropriate resources needed for them to thrive. In addition, M-PACT will use innovative, evidence-based practices, policies, procedures, and programs to transform the cu...lture of the participating units to becoming more diverse, equitable, and inclusive in order to become more effective in meeting their research, teaching, and service missions. Finally, M-PACT will utilize a multimethod approach to rigorously assess, evaluate, and document both processes and outcomes associated with the program in order that the success experienced at the University of Michigan can be shared with the broader biomedical and health science community.

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