Despite U.S. higher education facing a wave of retirements by older baby boomer and World War II-era born professors, there remain large pockets in the academic work force, such as life science faculties at research universities and humanities/social science faculties across all of academia, where tenure-track jobs are scarce and the market is saturated with Ph.D.s seeking those positions. For young scholars, the postdoctoral fellowship represents almost as important a launching pad for an academic career as the Ph.D. programs that initially trained them. In recent years, advocates for faculty diversity have begun to push for postdoctoral programs that target underrepresented minorities with the overall goal of increasing their representation as tenure-track faculty members. Dr. Anthony DePass, assistant vice president for faculty research development and an associate professor of biology at Long Island University-Brooklyn, is among a growing group of scientists and academic administrators who have taken on the task of improving postdoctoral opportunities for underrepresented minorities in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. This past summer, DePass, as chairman for the Minority Affairs Committee for the American Society for Cell Biology (ACSB), along with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), organized a career development workshop for 25 young minority faculty members and postdoctoral fellows at the AAAS headquarters in Washington, D.C. Since 1983, the University of North Carolina (UNC) has also maintained a minority postdoctoral program that has helped attract underrepresented minorities to do research and teach at the flagship school. The University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program has also offered a model for public university systems to consider. Established in 1984, the two-year UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship has helped the UC system attract and hire dozens of minorities from underrepresented groups into tenure-track positions at UC campuses.