Funding Programs
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The UCI Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Academic Diversity offers postdoctoral research fellowships and faculty mentoring to qualified scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to the diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California. These contributions may include public service addressing the needs of our increasingly diverse society, efforts to advance equitable access to higher education for women and minorities, or research focusing on underserved populations or understanding issues of racial or gender inequalities.
The program is seeking applicants with the potential to bring to their academic careers the critical perspective that comes from their non-traditional educational background or understanding of the experiences of members of groups historically underrepresented in higher education. Participants in both the President’s and Chancellor’s ADVANCE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program are eligible for the University of California Hiring Incentive.
UC Irvine began funding the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (CPFP) in 2013. Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellows are selected from the pool of applicants who identified mentors at UC Irvine and submitted their applications to the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
Deadline: Nov 1, annually
The UC Irvine Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship is a partnership of several campus units including the Offices of the Provost, Graduate Division, and Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity.
Faculty Success Program
As part of our institutional membership in the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, campus faculty and postdoctoral fellows may participate in the Faculty Success Program.
The Faculty Success Program provides participants with a supportive community committed to accelerating productivity and advancing career goals. UC faculty have benefited from the Faculty Success Program through:
- Setting achievable personal and professional goals
- Establishing a consistent, healthy, and sustainable daily writing routine
- Developing a publication profile that exceeds the institution’s promotion criteria
- Mastering best-practices in academic time management
- Identifying areas of resistance and developing strategies to move through them
- Nourishing physical and emotional health
- Providing a supportive community to process challenges and celebrate successes
The Spring and Summer 2025 Call for Funding has now closed.
Deadline: There are no calls currently open.
The University of California system provides funds to support diversity, equity, and inclusion on each campus. The following funds are available by applying to each respective UC page, rather than through the UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence. Advancing Faculty Diversity Grants provide faculty members funds for recruitment and retention in topics regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. The University of California’s President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers postdoctoral research fellowships and faculty mentoring to qualified scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to the diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California. UC-HBCU aims to build relationships and cultivate greater enrollment of HBCU scholars at UC as a long-term investment. UC-HSI DDI aims to enhance faculty diversity and pathways to the professoriate for underrepresented students from California Hispanic Serving Institutions through competitive grants and funding to support PhD students.
The Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award was a two-year, non-renewable appointment for selected new UCI Senate faculty – from newly hired advanced assistant professors to associate professors and professors or equivalent. The award recognized the distinguished accomplishment to advance inclusive excellence by provides funding to support continued scholarship, pedagogy, and exemplary service leadership contributing to diversity, equity, and inclusion at UCI. It had the goal to engaged the campus and community in conversations and explorations of stellar research and awardee contributions during an annual public forum. *Please note: there are no calls out currently. At this moment, we do not anticipate accepting future applications.
The University of California has provided each campus with one-time funding to address and combat antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of bias, bigotry, and discrimination at the university. Funds from this resource will support the Addressing Bias and Building Community at UC Irvine (ABC at UCI) grant program. The Office of Inclusive Excellence accepted proposals for up to $3,000 from UCI faculty, staff, and students. The ABC at UCI grant program aimed to create and maintain a safe campus environment that values diversity, fosters inclusion, and is free from expressions of hate. Specific objectives include:
- Addressing immediate mental health and trauma support needs of students, staff, and faculty;
- Advancing understanding of the histories and current dynamics of conflict, bias, bigotry, and discrimination, including but not limited to antisemitism and Islamophobia;
- Increasing the capacity for learning about free speech, hate speech, harassment, academic freedom, and UCI’s principles of community;
- Expanding the capacity for restorative practice, community building, and dialogue across differences.
*Please note: there are no calls out currently. At this moment, we do not anticipate accepting future applications.
UCI Confronting Extremism was launched as a one-year initiative in 2017 with the opening event, Charlottesville: A Defining Moment in America, A Conversation with Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. The initiative was dedicated to understanding the ideas and behaviors advocated far outside of alignment to the campus values for social justice and equity in today' society as a means to identify pathways for building positive campus and democratic communities.
The initiative connected current campus efforts with new intentions and activities – emphasizing the merits of research, innovative teaching and engaged service to inform inquiry and knowledge bases, practices, and values clarification aligned to the University’s mission in and beyond the 21st century. Moreover, the initiative dissected extreme rhetoric, violent acts, and related incidents, to reject their associated limits and divisions and, rather, to explore proactive, evidence-based, and instructive approaches and actions where societal progress may emerge. *Please note: there are no calls out currently. At this moment, we do not anticipate accepting future applications.