Inclusive Excellence Spirit Awards
Inclusive Excellence Spirit Awards support faculty activities which promote equity, diversity, and inclusion on campus among faculty, students, and staff, as well as the community served by UCI. The 2016 – 2017 call for proposals received 11 applications originating from 6 academic schools, with a funding request of nearly $100,000. The enthusiastic response underscores the interest of our faculty in augmenting the campus capacity to advance inclusive excellence. All funded proposals addressed at least one of five goals of the program:
- Deepen the understanding of race, gender, class, sexuality, immigration status, and/or other identities
- Promote emotional intelligence and intercultural competency
- Build and sustain partnerships with community-based organizations
- Advance achievement among educationally disadvantaged communities
- Contribute to an affirmative climate for all members of the Anteater community
Additionally, each funded proposal received a high degree of support from a department chair or school dean, and promised to have an enduring impact on behalf of inclusive excellence in UCI’s teaching, research, and service mission as a public land grant university.
To find out more about the Inclusive Excellence Spirit Awards, and to apply for our 2017-2018 call open September 18- October 31 of this year, please visit the application tab on the left.
For questions regarding the Inclusive Excellence Spirit Awards, please contact Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth at mbonoush@uci.edu or 949-824-9635.
Funded Proposals
Funded Proposals 2016-2017
| Name | Title | Department | Title of Funded Project |
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| Zeev Kain; Michelle Fortier; Belinda Campos | Professor; Assistant Professor; Associate Professor | Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care; Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care; Chicano/Latino Studies | Sustaining Researcher-Community Partnerships to Transform Pediatric Surgical Care to Better Serve Latino Families |
| Simon Leung | Professor | Studio Art | Three Essays on Racial Melancholy Across Time |
| Alessandra Pantano | Lecturer, SOE | Mathematics | UCI Diversity in Mathematics Festival |
| Paul Piff | Assistant Professor | Psychology & Social Behavior | Reducing Anxiety in Interclass Interactions Through Cross-class Friendship and Improving Psychological Educational Outreach |
| Darryl Taylor | Professor | Music | 20th Anniversary African American Art Song Alliance Conference |
| Julio Torres | Assistant Professor | Spanish & Portuguese | Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language |
| Tiffany Willoughby-Herard | Associate Professor | African American Studies | Documentary: One Boat, 40 Years Afterwards; Art History Exhibition: Vietnamese Focus: Generations of Stories |
| Sheron Wray | Associate Professor | Dance | Toward a Research Center for Reconnecting the African Diaspora |
Funded Proposals 2015-2016
| Name | Title | Department | Title of Funded Project |
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| Laura Enriquez | Assistant Professor | Chicano/Latino Studies | Identifying “Best Practices” to Support Undocumented UCI Students |
| Emily Grossman | Associate Professor | Cognitive Science | Tools to Enable Research for Individuals with Low Vision or Blindness |
| Justin Shaffer | PSOE Lecturer | Developmental & Cell Biology | Closing the Achievement Gap in Introductory Biology at UC Irvine |
| Damien Sojoyner | Assistant Professor | Anthropology | Forced Migration: The Deleterious Impacts of Public Education and Incarceration upon Black Families in Los Angeles, CA |
| Adria Imada and Emily Thuma | Associate Professor; Assistant Professor | History; Gender and Sexuality Studies | In Treatment: Mental Illness, Health, and Modern Sexuality |
| Kojiro Umezaki | Associate Professor | Music | New Expressions: Women in Music Technology Symposium |
| Linda Vo | Professor | Asian American Studies | Documentary: One Boat, 40 Years Afterwards; Art History Exhibition: Vietnamese Focus: Generations of Stories |
Inclusive Excellence Spirit Awards Application
| Applications are due Monday, October 31, 2016. |
| INSTRUCTIONS |
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| Deadline: Monday, October 31, 2016 |
The form may also be viewed and completed online, HERE.
Each funded applicant is required to submit a funding report detailing how the funding was used. Funding should be used as awarded. Additionally, each report should detail how the funded project impacted inclusive excellence in the community, or met one of the five goals set by the program:
- Deepen the understanding of race, gender, class, sexuality, immigration status, and/or other identities
- Promote emotional intelligence and intercultural competency
- Build and sustain partnerships with community-based organizations
- Advance achievement among educationally disadvantaged communities
- Contribute to an affirmative climate for all members of the Anteater community
A template of the funding report can be found here.
For questions on reporting, please contact Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth at mbonoush@uci.edu.