Grant Awards

Grant Awards for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

ADVANCE PLAN IHE: Center for Research, Excellence and Diversity in Team Science (CREDITS)

  • Principal Investigator: Michelle Hasendonckx, Interim Assistant Vice President, Student Success & Equity Initiatives
  • Description: The Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Science (CREDITS) hosts Retreats and Institutes to promote team science competencies and leadership capacity of faculty, researchers, post-doctoral scholars, and research administrators across the campuses of the University of California and Cal State University systems. CREDITS Retreats and Institutes feature interactive and engaging presentations, workshops, breakout sessions, and one-on-one consultation on team science dynamics and leadership, research design, and proposal writing.
  • Additional information: https://sasei.cikeys.com/nsf 

Project ALAS (Aligning Learning and Academic Success) 

  • Principal Investigator: Michelle Hasendonckx, Interim Assistant Vice President, Student Success & Equity Initiatives
  • Description: Project ALAS is a partnership among CSU Channel Islands, Oxnard College, Ventura College, and Santa Barbara City College. ALAS constitutes an expansion of CSUCI’s ongoing efforts to build a regional approach to providing meaningful access to higher education for an underserved Latinx population. The Project’s initiatives focus on “pipeline” initiatives: access, retention and transfer using high impact practices (HIP). This regional network focuses on improving the transfer process from 2-year to 4-year institutions. This network initiated an annual Transfer Success Summit and cross-institutional faculty fellows program. Areas of focus include aligning high impact teaching and learning practices, policies and systems to “one degree”.
  • Additional information: https://sasei.cikeys.com/project-alas

Building Capacity - HSI SMART: STEM Model for Advancing Research and Teaching

  • Principal Investigators: Blake Gillespie, Chemistry; Allison Alvarado, Biology; Amira Ibrahim, Psychology; Cynthia Flores, Mathematics
  • Description: This project aims to increase graduation rates and reduce the time to degree completion for all science, mathematics, and engineering majors and to reduce the performance gap existing between Latinx and non-Latinx White students as well as between female and male students.

CSU-LSAMP (California State University Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance) (2018- 2023)

  • Principal Investigator: Caryl Ann Becerra, Biology
  • Description: Initiated in 1994 with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the California State University Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (CSU-LSAMP) is a statewide, comprehensive academic support program dedicated to increasing the number of graduating individuals who face or have faced social, educational, or economic barriers to careers in the STEM disciplines from CSU campuses with a baccalaureate degree in the STEM disciplines. The program focuses on strengthening the mathematical skills of these students and continues to support them as they prepare to apply to graduate programs.
  • Additional information: https://sasei.cikeys.com/nsf

Channel Your Success

  • Principal Investigator: Michelle Hasendonckx, Interim Assistant Vice President, Student Success & Equity Initiatives
  • Description: Designed to increase persistence to graduation, Project Channel Your Success aims to achieve equitable student success outcomes by advancing a culture of degree completion and build institutional capacity by cultivating equity-minded leaders for the success of all CSUCI students. With the central goal to reduce inequities along the pathway to degree attainment, Project Channel Your Success will ensure that faculty, staff, and administrators have access to equity-minded practices to help students overcome barriers to timely graduation and ultimately channel their success at CSUCI.
  • Amount: $3 Million (2020-2025) 

Collaborative Research: CSU Alliance for PUMP: Preparing Undergraduates through Mentoring towards PhDs

  • Principal Investigator: Cynthia Flores, Mathematics
  • Description: The first goal of the PUMP Program is to identify mathematical talent among minority students, women, and first-generation college students in the California State Universities. Students in these underrepresented groups abound with, in particular, many predominantly Hispanic/Latino regions. The second is to strengthen the preparation of participating undergraduates to successfully pursue doctoral studies in a research institution. The third is to create a network of faculty mentors and the building of a supportive community. PUMP students go through a residential and intensive summer program in their transition from lower to upper division courses and undertake research projects in their junior or senior year. PUMP students will acquire the appropriate mathematics background and skills to achieve a "smooth transition into a college degree in Mathematical Sciences and later into a well-respected PhD program.
  • Additional information: http://www.pump-math.org

Crossing the Channel

  • Principal Investigators: Russel Bradley, Santa Rosa Island Research Station; Clare Steele, ESRM
  • Description: This program will provide a wide variety of experiential learning opportunities to increase middle school student interest in STEM fields. The personal experiences and mentoring relationships with CI undergraduates the middle school students obtain throughout the program will empower them to become active members of their local watershed community and increase the diversity of students within the STEM disciplines. The program utilizes research on engaging Latino audiences in informal science experiences and hopes to inspire interest in pursuing science as a profession. The program goals incorporate research opportunities into the curriculum and increase support for K-12 STEM research experiences.

Collaborative Research: AGEP Transformation Alliance: A California HSI Alliance for Pedagogy as Preparation for the Professoriate

  • Principal Investigators: Blake Gillespie, Chemistry; Cynthia Flores, Mathematics; Ahmed Awad, Chemistry
  • Description: CSUCI, UC Merced, UC Santa Barbara and CSU Fresno are collaborating together to develop, implement, and test a model that focuses on pedagogical training and career mentoring to prepare senior doctoral students for teaching-focused careers at a broad range of colleges and universities in order to create a more diverse STEM faculty workforce.
  • Additional information: https://hsi-agep.ucmerced.edu

DESAFIAR: Discovery Enabling Systemic Advancement and Faculty Inclusion Across Ranks

  • Principal Investigators: Erika D. Beck, President; Selenne Bañuelos, Mathematics; Ahmed Awad, Chemistry
  • Description: This project will enable significant learning about important systemic factors to ensure equitable experiences for current and newly hired faculty. The project will focus on four goals: 1) Implement robust data tracking around each stage of faculty recruitment and hiring practices; 2) Explore perceptions and realities of equity and transparency in faculty teaching and service loads; 3) Review policies and practices; 4) Collaboratively develop a 5-year plan to enhance faculty diversity in STEM.

Initiative to Enhance Diversity in the Biomedical Research Workforce at CSU Channel Islands

  • Principal Investigators: Sonsoles de Lacalle, Health Science; Melissa Soenke, Psychology; HyeSun Lee, Psychology; Hugo Tapia, Biology
  • Description: This project was born of the desire to contribute to enhance diversity in the bio-behavioral workforce. As a PUI HSI, CSUCI is uniquely positioned to identify factors that increase persistence in biomedical-relevant disciplines, boost baccalaureate graduation rates and encourage the pursuit of postbaccalaureate degrees among our students from HUGs. Using the framework of cultural mismatch theory of inequality, this study will identify successful approaches to student engagement, as well as provide faculty with effective tools to foster bio-behavioral careers among students from HUGs.

Martin V. Smith School of Business & Economics Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grants

  • Description: The Martin V. Smith School of Business & Economics Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion grants provide funds to support faculty, or small teams of faculty, in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the MVS School and across campus. The grants may be used to support the following: your attendance at a DEI workshop/training; reading/discussion groups; guest speakers; development/implementation of MVS School programming to support DEI on campus (e.g., curricular/co-curricular experiences designed to eliminate equity gaps; developing equity minded assignments/assessments; strategies/resources designed to address the diverse needs of our student population); events/collaborations with the external business/non-profit community. The funds cannot be used to fund faculty/staff/students through stipends, gift cards, etc.
  • Amount: Individual grants of up to $500 will be awarded. Proposals for larger funding requests from small teams of faculty will be considered.
  • Eligibility: All current Martin V. Smith School faculty and staff.
  • Dates: Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022

Project Adelante

  • Principal Investigator: Michelle Hasendonckx, Interim Assistant Vice President, Student Success & Equity Initiatives
  • Description: This collaboration between Oxnard College and CSU Channel Islands aims to improve the transfer process. This initiative includes a first-year experience program for Oxnard College transfer students with CSU Channel Islands students serving as peer mentors. In addition, a dual enrollment and learning Math/English summer bridge program with local high schools and Oxnard College increase on-line learning/hybrid opportunities.
  • Additional information: https://sasei.cikeys.com/project-adelante

Project OLAS (Optimizing Learning, Achievement, and Success)

  • Principal Investigator: Michelle Hasendonckx, Interim Assistant Vice President, Student Success & Equity Initiatives
  • Description: Project OLAS provides assistance to Ventura County high school students and their families in navigating the path to a 4-year degree. Through peer mentoring, OLAS supports students’ transitions to CSUCI. In addition, OLAS promotes student engagement in interdisciplinary undergraduate research, supports first-year living learning communities, and bolsters the sophomore-year experience through career/major exploration.
  • Additional information: https://sasei.cikeys.com/project-olas

Project PROMESAS: Pathways with Regional Outreach and Mathematics Excellence for Student Achievement in STEM

  • Principal Investigator: Michelle Hasendonckx, Interim Assistant Vice President, Student Success & Equity Initiatives
  • Description: Project PROMESAS seeks to strengthen the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) student success pipeline and transform collegiate mathematics pathways for student retention and success. Project PROMESAS collaborates with regional K-12 educational partners and community colleges to develop and implement college readiness and transfer initiatives. At CSUCI Project PROMESAS collaborates with faculty, staff, and various departments to enhance student-centered academic support services. Key initiatives within and with our community partners include the STEM Service Courses; STEM Articulation Summits; Science Carnival; STEM Club; and STEM Pathways workshops. Central student support services at CSUCI include the STEM Success Integrative Learning Community, STEM Center, and Peer-Led Team Learning.
  • Additional information: https://sasei.cikeys.com/promesas

PROMESAS Supplemental Award 

  • Principal Investigator: Michelle Hasendonckx, Interim Assistant Vice President, Student Success & Equity Initiatives
  • Description: The PROMESAS Supplemental Award seeks to enhance CSUCI’s culture of degree completion, particularly for Latinx and other students from historically underrepresented groups majoring in STEM. This award will establish the STEM Student Success Campaign and expand PROMESAS’ STEM Peer Mentor Network. These activities and services are designed to support STEM undergraduate students’ transition to a virtual learning environment and timely degree completion.
  • Amount: $109,303 (2020-2021) 
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