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Big picture of what you want to achieve:

Vision: Empowering UCBA students, staff, and faculty to bring awareness to, and to take action on, challenges in their communities to advance social equity and justice.

Empowering UCBA students, staff, and faculty to advance social equity and justice.

Vision: Advancing social equity and justice through the support, education, and engagement of UCBA students, staff, and faculty.

Mission: "This Center" advances social equity and justice through access to resources, learning experiences and opportunities, and pathways to impact our community. This mission is supported by:
1) Research, creative works, and professional activities;
2) Community service and outreach;
3) Services for student support; and
4) Efforts to foster awareness and engagement.

Name:  Center for Advancing Social Equity (CASE)
Center for Equitable Opportunity, Access, Learning, and Action

"This Center" provides access to resources and learning, as well as opportunities to address social justice and equity issues in the community.

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Host/co-sponsor a minimum of 2 faculty facing events per semester
Host/co-sponsor a minimum of 2 student facing events per semester
Host/co-sponsor a minimum of 2 community facing events per semester
Scale what's above back to 1 event per year for each demographic with an option to do 2 events per year for each demographic if needed
From the room:
Gather, organize, house, archive? all work currently undertaken by various faculty, groups, depts, units, etc.
Train activists for SJ in Higher Ed
Service learning expansion
Student development- help students increase awareness and adoption of social justice principles
Help students develop action plans to fulfill their call to action
Conduct a needs analysis- when should we focus our attention- Objective- help fac/staff increase understanding and facility in implementing social justice principles
Have a central hub of people/activities (B-cats' Landing)
Have multiple events for fac/staff/students
Identify a theme for shirt-term focus
Integrate restorative justice practices
Help develop DEI Courses that align with OT-36 (transfer between institutions)
Help departments create RPT criteria to recognize social justice activities

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UCBA Center for Equity and Justice
UCBA Center for Social Change
From the room:
SoJi (Social Justice Institute of UCBA)- West African for revival [and smart]
Center for Community, Social Justice, & Equity
Center for Learning, Action, Access and Opportunity
Center for Opportunity, Access, Learning and Action (COALA)

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From the room:
1) outstanding organizational skills
2) dedication to social justice/equity issues, broadly defined
3) faculty or staff with time buy-out OR under stand-alone DEI Director (depending on Dean's decision)
4) Collaboration skills (internal and external)
5) Potential knowledge/background in grants/$
6) Teaching experience- social justice orientation (broadly defined)
7) Exceptional writing, speaking and interpersonal skills

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https://research.uc.edu/funding/overview

Small but I think counts as collaborative across college
https://www.uc.edu/about/equity-inclusion/equity-inclusion/incentive-grants.html

UC Ethics Center gets funding under Next Lives Here (urban futures 'path' or whatever one calls it). We got funding for an executive director and a program manager. Obviously smaller scale here, but possible precedent for help with $$, whether administrative support, honoraria, etc.

From the room:
NLH: Urban Impact (Urban Futures) jennifer.krivickas@uc.edu
Provostal PDF Funds - Interdisciplinary Strategic Group Funds
Universal Provider Grants- related to faculty PD DEI grants
NEH for Community Colleges (we qualify!)
Possible funding from professional organizations: NASW, others
Is OLLI interested?
Corporate partnerships- naming right?

Gift/Grant (alumni?)

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The Office of Research is pleased to share the 2022 FOA for the URC Faculty Research Pivot Awards Program. Building upon the rich legacy of the University Research Council (URC), UC's oldest and most prestigious internal funding program, the URC Faculty Research Pivot Grants are targeted to mid-career and beyond faculty who are proposing transformative new ideas and directions for their research, scholarship and creative activities. This program is for individual faculty and may be discipline-focused or interdisciplinary in nature. All areas of research, scholarship, and creative activities across UC are eligible.

This program will follow a two-stage application/evaluation process. The first stage involves submission of a Letter of Intent (LOI). Up to 10 finalists will then be invited to submit a full proposal and agree to a 15-minute presentation/Q&A to discuss their proposed activities.

Grants: All grants will be for $15,000 and for a period of 18 months. Funds are expected to support the proposed activities and can include course relief, as necessary. Budgets will only be required from grantees and will be created in collaboration with the Office of Research. Up to five grants will be supported by this program.

Unit Head Support: All applicants must provide a letter of support from their unit head documenting the proposed activities are a departure from the current, the availability of resources to conduct the proposed activities, and any necessary unit-level support for the faculty member should they be selected for a grant.
KEY DATES
03/10/22 FOA released

04/11/22, 5:00 pm EST LOI Deadline

05/04/22 Finalists Notified (anticipated)

05/30/22, 5:00 pm EST Final Proposal Deadline (for finalists only)

06/03/22 Finalist Presentations: Week of June 3, 2022 (anticipated)

06/27/22 Grantees Announced: Week of June 27 2022 (anticipated)

08/01/22 - 01/31/24 Grant Project Period: August 1, 2022 - January 31, 2024

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The Office of Research is pleased to share the 2022 FOA for the URC Faculty Research Pivot Awards Program. Building upon the rich legacy of the University Research Council (URC), UC's oldest and most prestigious internal funding program, the URC Faculty Research Pivot Grants are targeted to mid-career and beyond faculty who are proposing transformative new ideas and directions for their research, scholarship and creative activities.

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From the room:
Phase 5 Reno.- student meeting space requested- could be used for student/peer work and coaching and counseling
Flory
Virtual presence
?L&TC for professional development elements- small office in LTC might be potential dedicated space- currently used for storage
I think we need to determine full suite of work- conference room, presentation space, etc.
Need space for library books?- can UCBA library do this? These are faculty/staff books); could house in L&TC?

Flory Hall - the prayer room is already there as well as inclusive restrooms

What about that small conference room on the 3rd floor of Muntz (the one with the brick wall- in the office suite). Is that used much?

In the past that was held for adjuncts.  We were not even allowed to reserve it.  However, it is also very small and has very limited tech.  (no projector, etc.)  It is almost office size.

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From the room:
Attendance at student/faculty/staff events
Rate of usage for food pantry, mental health services
Climate survey of faculty, staff and students
More experiential learning opps (co-op 2.0)
Track F, S, and S involvement in activism
Group level assessment by stakeholders (staff/fac/students)
Match evaluation to the objectives selected
Identify early goals; make objectives to match
Check number of courses with DEI outcomes

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Purpose and goals of the Center -

Why does it exist?

What purpose does it have short and long term?

How it will benefit students, College and Community?

What are the roles for faculty involved?

Will it be aligned with the UCBA Mission and Vision?

https://ucblueash.edu/about/information/guiding.html

Vision – Big picture of what you want to achieve.

Mission – General statement of how you will achieve the vision.

Core Values – How you will behave during the process.

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The University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College provides an excellent and accessible education for students from a wide array of educational and cultural backgrounds. Our student-centered approach to teaching and comprehensive services engage students so that they can acquire the knowledge and skills needed to succeed academically, personally, and professionally. We promote innovative scholarship and creative works, free inquiry, lifelong learning, and service beyond the classroom.

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The University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College provides an excellent and accessible education for students from a wide array of educational and cultural backgrounds. Our student-centered approach to teaching and comprehensive services engage students so that they can acquire the knowledge and skills needed to succeed academically, personally, and professionally.

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From the room:
Sarah Cummins Sebree
Angie Woods
Angela Miller-Hargis
Judy Singleton
Brenda Refaei
Jen Carter
Ruth Benander
Sue Sipple
Krista Sigler and likely all of Hist/PHIL/Pol. Sci
Consider including a public health faculty member
Student life- Sarah Wolfe (Molly Scruta &/or Tracy Davis)
Sue Schlembach
Ornaith O'Dowd (happy to liaise with Ethics Center)
Jessica Furgerson
Brian Bailie (Zoom)
Maria Ortiz (Zoom)
Helene Harte
Heather Maloney (Library rep)

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faculty research talks
training sessions (i.e. green dot)
talk/listening sessions
connecting faculty with community activists
donation collections/drives
opportunities to share social justice pedagogy with colleagues
Poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction readings by faculty and students with a social justice/equity theme.
Gallery show with social justice-related art work, photography, etc.
Student essay contest or research contest on social equity issues with small prizes awarded
Some kind of community award for social justice where the awardee gives talk?
Provide student resource guides (support)
student internships with community agencies
Culture events introducing community to different cultures represented at UCBA/issues in various places around the world.
-Pedagogical collaborations-- e.g. have activities we do in our classes that connect us with other classes doing relevant stuff, or faculty who do relevant stuff. (e.g. if I'm teaching applied ethics unit on punishment, collaborate with criminal justice faculty and students studying same from different angle).
From the room:
Inclusion impact series
Social worker
Counselor on campus (Programs)
Coaching and mentoring - CPS, TRIO, populations with need including parents and wards of state
PATHS (Persisting and thriving students)
VET Center, Mental health counseling
Event to highlight SJ activities undertaken by students?
Support to incorporate social justice in curricula
Student leadership institute (SLI)
Mind/body skills seminar (cultivate personal awareness and compassion)
More from the room:
Organize pushback/confrontation of HB 616 and HB 325 and HB 327
Repository/Store (website) for activities (maybe LTC) that fac/staff can use
Recognition for faculty, staff, and students upon completion of a set of activities (this is also an objective)
Service Learning and study abroad course development that targets SJ and recognition of those that already exist (possible subplans)
Collaborative teaching and research
Archive (wrong word) current activities in departments, programs, offices
2023 special issue of the JRPCT documentary/enthnography of the center OR Action Research projects from the Center
Work with community agencies on advocacy projects- service learning and public health ideas
Fac/staff Dev- Addressing social justice- LTC seminar; English and Comm- Antiracist Learning Community
LTC workshops- implicit bias, safe zone