| Criteria | Far Above Standards (5 pts) |
Above Standards (4 pts) |
Meets Standards (3 pts) |
Below Standards (2 pts) |
Far Below Standards (1 pts) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relevance to the Grant Purpose | Combines educational projects, scholarly research, creative activities and other programmatic initiatives that promote diversity, equity, inclusion, access, anti-racism and social justice | Designed to encourage and enrich understanding and respect for all members of the campus community. Works to enhance development and growth through diversity, equity, inclusion, access and social justice. Addresses a campus need. | Presents initiative for one aspect of the grant. | Leaves out critical members of the campus community, does not address a campus need. | Does not give any information regarding the needs of the campus and/or target audience. |
| Capacity to Affect a Broad Audience | Project shows extensive stakeholder engagements and represents a roadmap to advance inclusive excellence | Project clearly is designed to reach, and/or is applicable to the college community and may also include the larger community | Project seems to reach a reasonable number of groups/individuals on campus and most can benefit from the project. | Project reaches a limited campus constituency. | Project fails to address scope, or only reaches select group of individuals. |
| Innovative | New and innovative campus programming that leverages CSUN’s vision to become a national model in the areas of diversity, equity, access, inclusion and social justice | Proposed project reflects research, the process of creative thinking and seeks to advance diversity in ways that do not currently exist on campus. | Project idea reflects some attempt at research and creativity, but the approach may not be achievable. | Project idea lacks research, demonstrates little creating thinking and the approach is unrealistic. | Project idea not fully formed. |
| Potential for Ongoing Impact | Proposal includes details of potential sources of support, additional funding and sustainability. | Proposal explains the project’s impact on CSUN and how the benefits of the project could continue beyond the funding period. | Project has potential for ongoing impact, but proposal does not include details about how to continue beyond the funding period. | Project has limited potential. | No potential for ongoing impact/not addressed in proposal. |
| Collaboration | Project demonstrates a broad collaborative effort with other departments/divisions/schools/ or outside organizations. Reaches out to a diverse range of people. | Project may demonstrate a collaborative effort with others. | Project is not presented collaboratively yet does reflect some efforts to reach to others within their department or others on campus. | No effort to reach others on campus or in community. | Not addressed in proposal. |
| Budget | Budget follows State budget guidelines. Resources have been identified and budget designed to maximize project activities. Additional funding sources, if applicable, have been identified. | Budget follows State budget guidelines. | Budget is somewhat reasonable, yet fails to identify additional resources or is vague about how funds will be utilized | Budget plan lacks clarity. | Budget fails to follow State budget guidelines. |
| Clarity of Proposal | Followed the grant guidelines, including formatting, written in clear language and is easy to understand. Provides clarity in ideas presented. | Sufficiently addresses guidelines. | Followed the formatting guidelines and presents ideas but lacks sufficient detail. | Followed some formatting guidelines. | Did not follow the formatting guidelines, not easy to follow, vague ideas presented. |
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