To receive and administer funds for the establishment and maintenance of various educational programs that support, strengthen, and promote excellence and opportunity for students and teachers at all levels of education, from primary grades to the doctoral level.

Higher education fellowships include a suite of fellowships that support the development of future leaders at a variety of career stages in several critical fields. These programs support young faculty in continuing their careers, strengthen the representation of diverse groups in the professoriate and develop leaders in such areas as gender studies and ethics, as well as prepare experts for the united states foreign service. teaching and leadership fellowships is a major effort to recruit, prepare, and mentor candidates for school leadership as well as teaching in high-need subjects like mathematics and the sciences, transform their clinical preparation for teaching, and support their commitment to long-term careers in high-need urban and rural schools.