Butler Center seeking project proposals on enabling inclusion at Purdue

Following Provost Jay Akridge’s June 2020 message about “the work that remains” for campus to do to create a better Purdue and a better world, the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence is announcing a call for project proposals focusing on enabling inclusion at Purdue. This call is aimed at furthering the Butler Center’s goals to foster a climate of inclusion for faculty, particularly for women and underrepresented minorities.

The proposed project may explore any aspect of the lives of racial/ethnic minorities in higher education (faculty, staff, students). Projects may focus on racism and/or its intersections with sexism, classism, ethnocentrism, homophobia; privilege; prejudice; strategies for leaders to enable inclusionary workspaces; pedagogical aspects and teaching tools for courses on race/ethnicity and its intersections with gender, class, and sexual orientation; creating networks for support and education (including virtual); developing useful tools such as compiling resources that can educate and elevate people (e.g., the antiracist reading list compiled by Ibram X. Kendi and published by The New York Times). These can be university-level, unit/department-level, or individual-level programs or initiatives.

The principal investigator for the proposed project must be a Purdue faculty member (tenure-track, tenured, clinical or research) or a staff member. The co-Pls or other personnel on the proposal may be faculty members of any rank and/or staff and/or postdocs or students at Purdue. Approximately $15,000 is available for making multiple awards.

An application packet must include the following:

• Proposals should be described in a maximum of three pages (excluding title page and references), single-spaced in 12-point font. It must include the following details:
  • 100-word project summary.
  • Project goals and significance.
  • Plan to gather/obtain and analyze information or data. May be primary or secondary data, open-ended interview data, compiling information from multiple sources and any other forms of data.
  • Budget – funding needed to conduct the project (as detailed as possible). Funds cannot be used for salary or salary supplements but can be used for research assistants.
  • Timeline for project completion.
  • Brief explanation of how the project outcomes are clearly linked to advancing the mission of the Butler Center.
• Project scope must be manageable to be completed by Aug. 30, 2021.
• A two-page CV for the PI (not needed for co-PIs and research assistants).

The Butler Center will receive and review submissions and finalize the grant award(s) by the end of August 2020. A three- to five-page report on the project and findings will have to be submitted to the Butler Center at the end of the one-year project period.

Application packets are due by 5 p.m. July 15. The application packet should be submitted online as a single PDF file.

Email butlercenter@purdue.edu for questions or clarifications. The grant awardee(s) will be recognized at the Butler Center’s year-end reception in spring 2021.