DEIA Department and Interdisciplinary Grants
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Date Available: January 2025
Deadline: February 2025
The BCLA Dean’s office is pleased to announce the first annual BCLA Excellence Award in DEIA for Departments and Programs. The College understands DEIA as a form of restorative justice—a redressing of historic and contemporary forms of racialized institutional inequality and exclusion. We recognize that this work happens primarily in departments, as you implement your curriculum, assess your needs, and attend to the well-being of your faculty and students as the heart of a Jesuit education. Inspired by LMU’s commitment to transform our university into an antiracist institution in our latest Strategic Plan, this award for departments and programs recognizes the need for collective as well as individual recognitions. This award has three objectives: 1) to make visible the integration of DEIA work that departments and programs in the College do as part of their routine work, 2) to acknowledge and reward the value of such integration of DEIA work, and 3) to call every department and program into responsibility for this work.
There will be one $2000 award in the form of a budget transfer to the winning Department for the following year. -
Date Available: September 26, 2024
Deadline: October 31, 2024
Awardees notified in November. Work in proposal to begin December 2024, to be completed by Spring/Summer 2025.
The BCLA Dean’s office is pleased to announce the first year of an internal grant program designed to focus efforts on assessing and integrating DEIA within departmental curricula. The College understands DEIA as a form of restorative justice—a redressing of historic and contemporary forms of racialized institutional inequality and exclusion. We recognize that this work happens primarily in departments. Inspired by LMU’s commitment to transform our university into an antiracist institution, this grant for departments and programs recognizes the need for targeted support to advance faculty work in the development of DEIA within the Student Learning Outcomes and curricula of academic programs, along with related pedagogical development and assessment plans.
Up to three departmental grants of $2000 are available to be awarded this year. -
Date Available: October 3, 2024
Deadline: November 10, 2024
Timeline: Awardees notified in November. Work in proposal to begin December 2024, to be completed by Spring/Summer 2025. Final presentation to BCLA due Fall 2025.
The BCLA Dean’s office is pleased to announce the first annual BCLA DEIA Interdisciplinary Development Grant for Faculty Collaboration, which functions to directly support and sustain the Mission-based commitments to justice and antiracism articulated in LMU’s Strategic Plan, “Creating the World We Want to Live In” and BCLA’s DEI Strategic Plan. The College understands DEIA as a form of restorative justice—a redressing of historic and contemporary forms of racialized institutional inequality and exclusion. As such, the efforts undertaken as individual faculty members depend on collaboration with each other as part of our institutional efforts in this area.
We invite collaborative interdisciplinary and interdepartmental proposals from faculty members working in different departments who have the goal of developing and sustaining DEIA efforts related to pedagogy, curricular development/revision, and/or research efforts across departments. This grant supports individual faculty from different departments working together on projects that will support their particular goals, rather than department-based work.
We will award up to three (3) grants per year, in the amount of $2,000 for each proposal to be administered by each team following the conditions below. One faculty member will serve as the lead member of the team for logistical purposes (in the proposal, communications, and disbursement of the award).