Student Diversity Grant Opportunity

$1500 Grant Opportunities

Your chance to apply for Student Diversity Grants

Our goal at Fairfield University is to create a community that is respectful, multicultural, multiethnic, and religiously inclusive. It is our individual and collective responsibility at Fairfield University to develop personal awareness and promote diversity in our educational community.

We are pleased to announce the opportunity for undergraduate and graduate student-led teams to apply for a Student Diversity Grant (teams may include students, faculty, staff or administrators). The purpose of the grant is to encourage collaborative work among members of the Fairfield University community. While all successful applications will shed greater light on the issue of diversity, applicants are encouraged to think broadly and creatively about their proposals. For example, awards could be used to expand or modify an existing program, or create an entirely new program or event. Alternatively, applicants could seek funding for a diversity-related research project.

What you can win:

• Up to three grants will be awarded.
• Selected grants will receive up to $1500 for program expenses.
• Winning teams will each receive a $500 cash prize!

Proposals should address one or more of the following:

• How to increase respect and understanding on the Fairfield University campus for the contributors and lifestyles of various underrepresented racial, cultural, and economic groups in our society,
• How to maintain, enhance, or establish multicultural, disability-sensitive, gender-fair, inclusive environments that are conducive to the success of all students at Fairfield University.
• Intersections between intellectual, social and spiritual aspects of student and community life.

Project examples that might fit these criteria include:

• A conference on race and ethnicity in higher education.
• A forum for collegial discussions on diversity in living accomodations on and off campus.
• Research and/or a course about views on diversity held by various world religions
• An investigation on how community life and faith affect, or could enhance, learning and discovery at Fairfield.

For more information and application materials, please contact:

Dean Dr. Deb Chappell (DMH 251) dchappell@mail.fairfield.edu
Dr. Betsy Gardner (BNO 407) gardner@email.fairfield.edu
Larri Mazon (Center for Multicultural Relations) lwmazon@mail.fairfield.edu
Dr. Renée T. White (DMH 110) rtwhite@mail.fairfield.edu

Application

Collegiate Closet Policy Report

Brinkman Student Diversity Grants article

Am I Racist:
Exploring unconscious biases and prejudices among Fairfield University students

Project Peg

Sponsored by the Earl W. and Hildagunda A. Brinkman Private Charitable Foundation, the Humanities Institute of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Academic Vice President, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Dolan School of Business, the Center for Multicultural Relations, and Associate Dean Raymond P. Poincelot of the College of Arts and Sciences.