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Proposing Strategies to Foster Institutional Change: Key Considerations for Institutional Challenge Grant Applicants

The bottom line: universities can incentivize faculty to become engaged in responding to real-world problems and having a social impact. Join us in figuring out how to make this happen.

Kim DuMont

8/1/2019

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Integrated Data to Reduce Disproportionality in School Discipline Referrals and Increase Access to Supports

How might an integrated data-based decision making framework reduce racial and ethnic disparities in school discipline referrals and access to school-based mental health supports?

Shereen Naser

Cleveland State University

2019 – 2021

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Shereen Naser

Cleveland State University

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Partnering for Community Change: How the Institutional Challenge Grant Has Shaped Our Work

The Institutional Challenge Grant has provided my colleagues and I at the Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkins County with an opportunity to expand an existing working relationship with researchers...

Anna Steinkraus

7/18/2019

Grant

Subjectivity and bias in college admissions: Can letters of recommendation promote fairer decisions?

Does the inclusion of reference letters in a selective college’s admissions process reduce inequality in admissions decisions?

Jesse Rothstein

University of California at Berkeley

2019 – 2021

Grant

How does working while enrolled affect the academic and labor-market outcomes of low-income college students?

How can the FWS Program be better used to improve academic and labor market outcomes for low-income college students?

Adela Soliz

Vanderbilt University

2019 – 2024
$350,000.00

Grant

Using design thinking with Black youth in the juvenile justice system to address mental health inequities

How would Black youth in the juvenile justice system redesign that system to better meet their mental health needs?

Susan Rivers, Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann and Susan Jane

EdTogether, Inc.

2019 – 2022
$394,133.00

Grant

Rhode to College: Evaluation of a Program to Increase College Enrollment Among Low-Income Students

Can a light-touch intervention that provides information, nudges, and financial incentives to high-achieving, low-income students help them apply for and get into college?

Justine Hastings and Seth Zimmerman

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

2019 – 2022

Grant

School Engagement and Avoidance among System-Involved Parents with Young Children

How do system-involved parents of young children view, interact, and engage (or not) with schools?

Anna Haskins

University of Notre Dame

2019 – 2026

Grant

Place-Based Opportunity: Housing Models to Reduce Inequality in Children’s Contexts

What programs and policies can help low-income families with children move to higher opportunity neighborhoods, and what is the promise of place-based models that provide affordable housing in...

Ann Owens

University of Southern California

2019 – 2025
$350,000.00

Grant

How Politics, Poverty, and Social Policy Implementation Shape Racial Inequality in Child Development in the Rural South

How do the organizational practices of public welfare agencies support or undermine family processes and adolescent development in poor rural communities?

Carolyn Barnes

Duke University

2019 – 2025
$350,000.00

Grant

What’s Not the Matter with Kansas? Lessons from Kansas for the Future of State School Finance Reform

What insights can Kansas offer about using research evidence to inform school finance reform?

Bruce Baker

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

2019

Grant

Active Surveillance of Policy Ecosystems and Networks to Enhance Brokering of Research Evidence into State Policymaking

Can a knowledge brokering intervention improve the use of research evidence in state policymaking?

Itzhak Yanovitzky and Matthew Weber

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

2019 – 2023

Grant

Measuring the Effectiveness of Research-Practice Partnerships in Education

Strong measures are needed to assess when and how research-practice partnerships are effective and can improve the use of research evidence in policy and practice.

Caitlin Farrell, William Penuel, Paula Arce-Trigatti and James Soland

Northwest Evaluation Association

2019 – 2023

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2019 Farr and Simon

Farr will use this award to develop cultural competencies that will help her tailor her mentoring to be more helpful to the unique needs of students of color, particularly their professional...

Rachel Farr

University of Kentucky

2019 – 2022
$60,000.00

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2019 Wisniewski and Badillo-Urquiola

Wisniewski will use this award to develop the skills necessary to provide the scaffolding that students, particularly students of color, need to become strong, well-networked researchers.

Pamela Wisniewski

University of Central Florida Research Foundation

2019 – 2022
$60,000.00

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2019 Ispa-Landa and Leatherwood

Ispa-Landa will use this award to develop work routines that facilitate strong, trusting ties with graduate students of color in more structured, intentional, and planned ways.

Simone Ispa-Landa

Northwestern University

2019 – 2023

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: Application 2019 Bottiani and Henderson

Bottiani will use this award to improve her ability to initiate and sustain difficult dialogues about how race and racism affect her students.

Jessika Bottiani

University of Virginia

2019 – 2021
$109,912.00

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2019 Holmes, Fernández, and Martinez

Holmes will use this award to develop skills in hearing, acknowledging, and responding to experiences of racialization, racism and anti-immigrant prejudice.

Seth Holmes

University of California at Berkeley

2019 – 2021
$59,996.00

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2019 Smith and Besserer

Smith will use this award to learn to be more intentional about mentoring across difference, particularly learning about the specific challenges underrepresented faculty face in the academy.

Robert C. Smith

Baruch College, City University of New York

2019 – 2023
$59,625.00

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Proposing Strategies to Foster Institutional Change: Key Considerations for Institutional Challenge Grant Applicants

Integrated Data to Reduce Disproportionality in School Discipline Referrals and Increase Access to Supports

Shereen Naser

Partnering for Community Change: How the Institutional Challenge Grant Has Shaped Our Work

Subjectivity and bias in college admissions: Can letters of recommendation promote fairer decisions?

How does working while enrolled affect the academic and labor-market outcomes of low-income college students?

Using design thinking with Black youth in the juvenile justice system to address mental health inequities

Rhode to College: Evaluation of a Program to Increase College Enrollment Among Low-Income Students

School Engagement and Avoidance among System-Involved Parents with Young Children

Place-Based Opportunity: Housing Models to Reduce Inequality in Children’s Contexts

How Politics, Poverty, and Social Policy Implementation Shape Racial Inequality in Child Development in the Rural South

What’s Not the Matter with Kansas? Lessons from Kansas for the Future of State School Finance Reform

Active Surveillance of Policy Ecosystems and Networks to Enhance Brokering of Research Evidence into State Policymaking

Measuring the Effectiveness of Research-Practice Partnerships in Education

Mentoring and Career Development: 2019 Farr and Simon

Mentoring and Career Development: 2019 Wisniewski and Badillo-Urquiola

Mentoring and Career Development: 2019 Ispa-Landa and Leatherwood

Mentoring and Career Development: Application 2019 Bottiani and Henderson

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Mentoring and Career Development: 2019 Smith and Besserer

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