""Due to the severe budget constraints currently facing UC, the PPFP faculty hiring incentive is sunsetting as of fall 2025," the spokesperson said in a statement. "While the University will continue to provide five years of salary support to PPFP fellows hired by summer 2025 and in earlier years, no new incentives will be provided going forward. Campuses will still be able to hire PPFP fellows as part of their normal search and hiring processes, but the additional financial contribution from the incentive program will no longer be available.""
"The UC system office will stop providing financial support for the program beginning with fellows hired after summer 2025, a system spokesperson told Inside Higher Ed. Since 2003, the UC system office has paid the $85,000 salaries of PPFP fellows for their first five years on the faculty; then the UC campus where they are employed takes over. To date, the system has spent $162 million on PPFP faculty salaries, averaging about $7.36 million per year."
The University of California will end system-office funding for the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for fellows hired after summer 2025, eliminating the hiring incentive. The PPFP, established in 1984, promotes academic careers for women and minority Ph.D.s and operates across all 10 UC campuses and three national laboratories. The program inspired similar initiatives at several state universities but drew criticism from conservatives who view it as a pipeline for radical leftist hires. Since 2003 the UC system paid $85,000 salaries for fellows' first five faculty years, totaling $162 million to date. Campuses may continue hiring without the additional incentive. The system faces declining state funding and political pressure to weaken diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
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