2021-2022 Request for Proposals for the University of California-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative (UC-HSI-DDI) Initiative

The UC Office of the President has announced the 2021-22 Request for Proposals for the UC-HSI-DDI. This is a systemwide initiative designed to encourage UC faculty and administrators to enhance existing partnerships or explore new California HSI collaborations (within and external to UC).

As part of UC’s systemwide effort to enhance faculty diversity, annual funding has been allocated to support efforts that will expand pathways to faculty diversity. This commitment enables the University to advance the systemwide UC-HSI program and support the following goals:

Increase the pathways to UC Ph.D. completion for underrepresented students from California HSIs.
Expose, encourage and help prepare students for the professoriate.
Encourage research and enrichment collaborations between UC faculty and faculty at partner California HSIs — supporting partnerships that will foster long-term engagement opportunities among faculty, students, programs, departments and campuses.
Enhance the climate of academic programs through interventions, incentives and efforts that foster an academic culture of inclusion and equity — especially for faculty and students from underrepresented communities.

The UC-HSI_DDI grants program offers two funding mechanisms: 1) small awards up to $50K and 2) large awards up to $350K. The competitive grant awards to UC faculty/faculty administrators will support short- and long-term programs/projects to enhance and expand pathways to the professoriate for underrepresented minorities with a goal to increase faculty diversity and inclusion at UC.

Please review the RFP for specific program guidelines. The proposal submission deadline is Noon on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. For more information, please visit the UC-HSI DDI webpage: https://ucop.edu/graduate-studies/initiatives-outreach/uc-hsi-ddi.html or contact Graduate Studies at gradstudies@ucop.edu.

The initiative is in direct support of appointment and promotion review and appraisal criteria as established in the Academic Personnel Manual: APM 210 - https://ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-210.pdf . This effort also supports the revised Diversity Statement, adopted as policy in 2010, by the UC Regents.

Elizabeth H. Simmons
Executive Vice Chancellor

Becky R. Petitt
Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

James S. Antony
Dean, Graduate Division