FSU Anti Racism Grant applications are now open. Due November 1st

10/1/2024

Dear FSU Members,

The FSU is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for anti-racism proposals.   

This academic year’s funding pool is $45,000. 

The application deadline is Friday, November 1st at 4PM EST.

Background

As part of the 2020-2023 contract negotiated by the FSU and UMB administration, the university agreed to establish a “$25,000 pool of funding in each year [of the contract that] shall be allocated to and distributed by the Provost’s office in consultation with the FSU to support anti-racism activities for faculty and librarians.”

We had such great response to the program that we were able to increase the funding to $45,000 in our current 2023-2024 contract (see Article 26.6.1.(a).2). 

Funded projects

We encourage faculty/librarians to think about anti-racism initiatives in broad and innovative ways – with the idea that proposed events, trainings, education, talks, research, etc. will take place throughout the next academic year but must be completed (and money spent) by June 30, 2025.   

Projects funded in 2023-2024 include:

Enhancing Our Pedagogical Goals Around Anti-Racism in Psychology Teaching

Sustaining Anti-Racism Efforts in Counseling and School Psychology, Continuing our Phillis Wheatley Peters Emerging Scholar Conversations and Social Justice Lunch and Learn Series

Towards Advancing Gendered Racial Equity in Greater Boston’s STEM Education Ecosystem

A Teach-In and Speak-Out for the Times: Pathways to Social Repair and Campus Transformation/ Sankofa Conversation on Structural Racism for the Times

Promoting Anti-Racism through Continued Community Care among UMB Black Women Faculty

A Teach-In and Speak-Out For the Times: Pathways to Social Repair and Campus Transformation/ Solidarity, Healing, and Empowerment: Confronting Embodiments of Racism & Racism-Induced Weathering at UMass Boston

Connecting the dots between past, present, and future: Understanding oppression in the early childhood education workforce in order to re-build towards intersectional justice

Race, Ethnicity, and Literature Reading Group

Bargaining for the Common Good & Addressing Racial and Social Justice

NTT Labor Based Grading Project

Application Process: materials

-   No more than a 1 ½ page proposal that includes a short budget. 

-   A CV for each proponent. 

-   Submit as attachments to fsu@umb.edu (you will receive a confirmation of receipt email) no later than Friday, November 1st at 4PM EST.

 A three-person committee of FSU members appointed by the FSU Executive Committee will review the proposals. The committee submits to the provost a list of projects to be funded. The provost’s office makes the final decision.  All applicants will be informed of their proposal status. 

Award recipients will be announced by December 2, 2024.

Sincerely, 

Caroline Coscia                                 Sana Haroon

FSU President                                    FSU Vice President 

Senior Lecturer II                               Professor 

Political Science Department             History Department