2024-2025 Request for Proposals for the University of California-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative (UC-HSI DDI)

The UC Office of the President has announced the 2024-25 Request for Proposals for the UC-HSI DDI. This is a system-wide effort designed to support faculty diversity and inclusion at UC.

As part of UC’s system-wide 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 system-wide UC-HSI DDI program and support the following goals:

Increase the pathways to UC Ph.D. completion for underrepresented students from California HSI.
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.
Improve the climate of academic programs through interventions, incentives and efforts that foster a 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 $50,000 and 2) large awards up to $350,000. 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 Friday, November 22, 2024 at 12 p.m. (Pacific Time). 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

Corinne Peek-Asa
Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation

Judy Kim
Interim Dean, Division of Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs

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