COMMISION ON DIVERSITY

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GRANT RUBRIC: 2023-2024

DIVERSITY & EQUITY INNOVATION GRANT

2023-2024 Grant Rubric

Definitions

  • Proposals: May include projects, scholarly research, creative activities and other programmatic initiatives for students, faculty and staff.
  • Values of Inclusive Excellence: Social justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, access, and anti-racism.
  • Funding Period: July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024
  • CSUN’s Road Ahead: Through CSUN’s road map process, strategic directions and priorities were developed to  guide institutional initiatives, programming and future resource allocations. Alignment to CSUN’s Road Ahead is a criterion for funding.
  • Innovative: CSUN aspires to be a national model for advancing inclusive excellence and leveraging innovation to enact equity-centered programming in ways that do not currently exist. Innovative programs embed values of inclusive excellence and leverage processes and frameworks (such as innovation frameworks, equity-centered design thinking, equity-mindedness, participatory action inquiry, Data-Practice-Leadership, creative and disruptive thinking, etc.) to address equity gaps, reimagine practices and redesign policies to advance understanding, education, awareness, and engagement in addressing systemic inequities and injustices. 
CriteriaAbove StandardsMeets StandardsBelow Standards
Relevance to the Grant Purpose
(10 Points)

Proposal clearly articulates a complete and well-informed proposal, supported by extensive knowledge and strong evidence of understanding campus community needs, and connection to advancing the values of inclusive excellence. (10 Points) 

Proposal demonstrates basic knowledge and emerging evidence of meeting a campus need, and/or a connection to promoting the values of inclusive excellence are observable.  (5 Points)

Proposal is incomplete and not fully developed, with little to no evidence of meeting a campus need related to the values of inclusive excellence. (0 Points) 

Alignment to Road Ahead Strategic Directions & Priorities
(10 Points)

Proposal seamlessly aligns the proposal to at least two strategic directions and priorities of CSUN’s Road Ahead. (10 Points) 

Proposal attempts to broadly align the proposal to CSUN’s Road Ahead Strategic Directions and Priorities. (5 Points) 

Proposal does not align with at least one of the six CSUN’s Road Ahead Strategic Directions and Priorities. (0 Points) 

Innovative
(5 Points)
Innovative campus proposal that seamlessly leverages CSUN's vision to become a national model for advancing inclusive excellence and leverages innovation to enact equity-centered programming in innovative ways that do not currently exist on campus. (5 Points)Proposal reasonably attempts to integrate the values of inclusive excellence and concepts of innovation or equity-centered frameworks to explain how programming is innovative. (3 Points)Proposal fails to integrate the values of inclusive excellence and concepts of innovation or equity-centered frameworks and does not describe how programming is innovative. (0 Points)
Sustainability & Potential for Ongoing Impact
(5 Points)

Proposal demonstrates evidence of potential sources of support, additional funding, institutionalization and/or sustainability. (5 Points) 

Proposal demonstrates potential for ongoing impact, but the proposal does not include details about how to continue beyond the funding period. (3 Points) Proposal demonstrates limited to no potential for ongoing impact. (0 Points) 
Collaboration
(5 Points)

Proposal demonstrates a broad collaborative institution-wide effort with other departments/divisions/schools or outside organizations. Collaborates with a diverse range of people. (5 Points) 

Proposal demonstrates some effort to engage and outreach to others for broad participation in programming. (3 Points)

Proposal demonstrates little to no evidence of engagement or outreach to others. (0 Points)

Budget
(5 Points)

Proposal presents a complete budget, and the details provided demonstrate strong support for the overall project designed to maximize project activities. Additional funding sources, if applicable, have been identified. (5 Points) 

Proposal presents a limited budget and with some details to determine its reasonable to support the overall project or is vague about how funds will be utilized. (3 Points) 

Proposal provides little to no details to infer connections between the budget request and the overall project. (0 Points) 
Total Score   
Comments:   
Funding RecommendationsFully Fund at Proposal Amount RequestedPartially Fund less than Proposal Amount Requested (I have reservations)_Insert Amount (OPTION QUESTION)Do Not Fund