Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship Program records

The Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship Program sought to help recent college graduates continue their education beyond the bachelor's degree. The program was centered at Haverford College but also worked in tandem with other small liberal arts colleges such as Bryn Mawr, Knox, Hamilton, Carleton, Kalamazoo, and Swarthmore. Accepted fellows would choose which of these colleges they wanted to attend, and if approved by that college, would spend a year taking... courses there and further preparing to pursue higher education after the program. The program acknowledged that Black students faced particular difficulties obtaining Ph.D's or other higher degrees, and thus recruited fellows mostly from predominantly Black colleges in the South. Though the program was not exclusively for Black students, recruiting Black students was a main focus of the program and all but two of the fellows in the 1966-1967 academic year were Black.