The Office of Diversity, Access and Inclusion administers university-wide award and grant programs that recognize and honor students, faculty, staff, administrative units and campuses whose efforts support NU’s Strategic Framework goals relating to diversity and equity.
University-Wide Initiatives
Grant Background and Overview
Inclusive Excellence Development Grants provide system-level support for implementing or strengthening initiatives that advance diversity, access, and inclusion on an NU campus. These initiatives should lead to equitable outcomes in one or more of the following priority areas:
- Campus Climate
- Student Recruitment and Retention
- Faculty and Staff Recruitment and Retention
The goals of the grants: to foster a campus environment that includes a multiplicity of backgrounds, to help recruit and retain the talent needed to advance the University of Nebraska, and to make NU the best place in the nation to be a student, faculty or staff member.
Fall 2019 Inclusive Excellence Development Grants were awarded to:
- Productive Dialogue: A Series of Guided Discussions on Relevant, Divisive Topics at UNK, which will develop a cohort of leaders trained to guide difficult, but relevant topics on the UNK campus. The topics covered in these dialogues will revolve around identities and current events.
- CEHS AFIRE Diversity and Inclusive Excellence Pledge Program at UNL, which aims to increase visibility of diversity and inclusion issues by creating a pledge poster, distributed to faculty and staff who want to take the pledge to work for inclusive excellence in 2020.
- Building Capacity Toward a Culture of Inclusive Excellence at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, which will encourage all faculty, staff and administrators to reflect on their role and potential to influence a more inclusive and positive culture throughout UNMC as a whole.
- The Nexus is the Narrative: Writing, Reading and Hearing Incarcerated Voices Towards Social and Educative Justice at University of Nebraska Omaha, which aims to academically engage the incarcerated in public dialogue about prisons, criminal justice, and societal transition through their own experiences.
The Office of Diversity, Access and Inclusion looks forward to receiving grants for the Inclusive Excellence Development Grants this fall. Applications will open October 11, 2021. Please watch the site and your email for reminders and notifications.
Funding Opportunities and Requirements
The Office of Diversity, Access and Inclusion looks forward to receiving grants for the Inclusive Excellence Development Grants this fall. Applications will open October 11, 2021. Please watch the site and your email for reminders and notifications.
Inclusive Excellence Development Grant Background and Overview
Applications and Timeline
The Office of Diversity, Access and Inclusion looks forward to receiving grants for the Inclusive Excellence Development Grants this fall. Applications will open October 11, 2021. Please watch the site and your email for reminders and notifications.
Inclusive Excellence Development Grant Application Requirements
Inclusive Excellence Collaboration Award
Award Background and Overview
Each year the University of Nebraska presents up to six faculty members and one department or unit with the President’s Excellence Awards—our most prestigious honors for success in the classroom, laboratory and community. This year we’re proud to announce the addition of a new award, the Inclusive Excellence Collaboration Award (IECA), which recognizes efforts that move the University toward inclusive excellence.
Funding Opportunities and Requirements
This award will honor significant and sustained efforts in diversity and inclusion between two or more University of Nebraska academic and/or administrative units or campuses. The honored administrative and/or academic departments/units or campuses will be awarded $25,000 to support diversity, access, and inclusion efforts on campus, an engraved plaque, and be featured on the University of Nebraska website.
The academic and/or administrative departments/units or campuses will exemplify significant advancement and proven outcomes in inclusive excellence evidenced by successful and sustainable diversity, access, and inclusion effort(s). Efforts must impact one or more of NU’s diversity and inclusion priority areas that correlate with the inclusive excellence framework, and the President’s Cornerstones. The award will only be given when merited and need not be made in any given year.
Timeline and Application
Nominations are due November 19, 2021. For more detailed information, please visit the President's Excellence Awards webpage.
Inclusive Excellence Development Series
At the University of Nebraska, we’re always asking ourselves what we can do to become a more inclusive community. There’s no more important priority than making sure we all have a safe and welcoming environment in which to learn and work.
We can be proud of our efforts to live our values of respect and dignity for all. At the same time, we know we can do better. With that in mind, the University of Nebraska has hosted—and will continue to host—a series of presentations focused on achieving Inclusive Excellence across our campuses.
Learn more about the 2018 "Unconscious Bias in Higher Education" Series here.
Learn more about the 2019 "Defamation Experience" Series here.
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