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	The Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program was established in 1988 in response to a nationwide concern with increasing the number of faculty members from under-represented minority groups in higher education. In 2003, the Mellon Foundation renamed the program the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, reaffirmed its commitment to the program, and broadened its mission. The program aims to encourage underrepresented minorities (for example, Native Americans, Latino/as, and African-Americans) and other U. S. citizens and permanent residents who are committed to eradicating racial disparities to develop their academic interests to the fullest and to pursue doctoral degrees and academic degrees in the following fields: Anthropology, Area Studies, Art History, Classics, Computer Science, Demography, Earth Science, Ecology, English, Ethnomusicology, Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Geology, History, Literature, Mathematics, Musicology, Philosophy, Physics, Political Theory, Religion, and Sociology.