Butler Center awards 2020 Enabling Inclusion at Purdue grants for five projects

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 announced a call for project proposals focusing on enabling inclusion at Purdue. The call sought project proposals to further the Butler Center’s goals to foster a climate of inclusion for faculty, particularly for women and underrepresented minorities.

The following five projects were selected for the 2020 Enabling Inclusion at Purdue grant:

• “Allies of Inclusion Program: Promoting Awareness and Participation in Diversity Education to Build Critical Mass for Change," Ximena Bernal (principal investigator).
• “Data Promises and Perils in the Time of COVID: Critical Data Studies Teach-Ins and Syllabus Project for Enabling Inclusion at Purdue," Faithe Day (principal investigator).
• “Increasing Inclusion in High Performance Computing and Visualization," Carolyn Ellis (principal investigator).
• “Enabling Inclusion: Challenging Faculty to Disrupt Surveillance and Discipline of Black Women in Higher Education," Stephanie Masta Zywicki (principal investigator).
• “Next Steps – Environment Justice, Climate Change, and Racial Justice," Laura Zanotti (principal investigator).

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. The grant awardees will be recognized at the Butler Center’s year-end reception in spring 2021 assuming restrictions due to COVID-19 are lifted. For more information about the Enabling Inclusion at Purdue grant, visit the Butler Center website.