I am pleased to announce funding opportunities for innovative pilot projects that help ensure every Triton feels that they belong and can fully participate and thrive at the university. This call is part of a larger campus initiative, Tritons Belong, designed to ensure a university community that is based in the shared values of our Principles of Community – diversity, inclusion, belonging, empathy, mutual respect, and understanding.
The ongoing war in the Middle East has taken a toll on the well-being of many in our campus community and challenged our shared values of diversity, inclusion, belonging, empathy, mutual respect, and understanding which we espouse through our Principles of Community. The aim of this call is to support units and divisions across the enterprise in ensuring a learning, teaching, and living environment that supports everyone’s full participation in the university. We invite proposals that will accomplish one or more of the aims below.
- Support and advance intergroup dialogue
- Educate and develop staff, faculty, and students’ skills and abilities in conflict resolution
- Expand training and education in the area of navigating difficult dialogue in the classroom environment during challenging times
Grants of $2,500–$15,000 may be proposed for projects that help us achieve the stated programming aims above. This funding mechanism will favor proposals that advance UC San Diego’s Principles of Community and demonstrate the potential to further a living, learning, teaching, and research environment in which all can fully participate.
Grant applications are due by April 1, 2024.
We look forward to receiving your applications to help us collectively address the negative effects of hate and intolerance on our Triton community.
