Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Inclusive Excellence (IE3): Building institutional capacity for student belonging

Anyone who plans to submit a proposal to this program must send an email with the information requested below to [email protected] by no later than 9:00 a.m. on Monday, May 20.  The subject of the email should be “HHMI Inclusive Excellence.”

Please provide the following information:

  • Program Director (PI), Administrative Unit or Academic Department
  • Co-PI(s) – Name and Administrative Unit or Academic Department
  • Project Title

Please send any questions to [email protected]

 

Summary

This is not a research award.

The HHMI Inclusive Excellence initiative fosters a learning community of college and university faculty and administrators who are engaged in the process of increasing their institution’s capacity for inclusion of all students, especially students who belong to groups underrepresented in the sciences. Each school in the community commits to learning through reflection, sharing what is being learned, listening to feedback, and supporting other members of the community.

These grants are helping US colleges and universities build their capacity to effectively engage students from all backgrounds throughout their undergraduate years, especially those students who belong to groups underrepresented in science

If awarded, the university will:

  • Develop an understanding of its institutional context and define what “inclusive excellence” means to the institution;
  • Identify the institutional barriers to inclusion and equity;
  • Support serious efforts to engage all faculty in making meaningful contributions to the institution’s growth in capacity for inclusion;
  • Build a context-specific theory of change with measurable milestones, establish meaningful methods to assess progress, and use evidence to continuously inform program design and implementation;
  • Continuously reflect on how the activities supported by the grant influence institutional values, rewards systems, the campus environment, and progress toward genuine capacity building;
  • Actively participate in the Inclusive Excellence learning community.

For more information, please see: https://www.hhmi.org/sites/default/files/programs/inclusive/ie3-program-announcement-final.pdf