Dear CSWAC Members,

 

Happy New Year! I hope you all have had a relaxing break.

 

CSW|Streisand Center is ready to launch the Faculty Research & Development Initiative mentioned in my previous email (below), albeit a couple of weeks later than planned due to the UAW strike. I have attached the program proposal with the survey results again for your convenience.

 

To launch the FRD initiative, CSW|Streisand Center will host bimonthly thematic luncheons for CSWAC faculty starting in mid-February 2023. Faculty will be voting on the proposed luncheon themes at the CSWAC General Meeting on 1/26. Once the themes have been selected, we will send an announcement with all the details.

 

Also, the CSW|Streisand Center Faculty Research Grants are now open to both senate faculty and non-senate faculty for the first time. Grants are awarded up to $6,000, maintaining last year’s increase of the award amount. You can access the application here. Applications are due on Friday, April 14, 2023.

 

Best regards,

 

 

 

Dear CSWAC Members,

 

Earlier this year, some of you completed a survey on forms of support you would like as part of a proposed faculty and research development initiative at CSW|Streisand Center. As I mentioned at the time, the survey was part of my capstone project for the Professional Development Program offered by Campus HR. I have attached the proposal (including the survey results) in case you would like to view the details of the report. I have also posted the introduction below my signature. In sum, though, faculty expressed a desire for opportunities for community engagement and more research funding. 

 

To launch the FRD initiative, then, CSW|Streisand Center will host bimonthly thematic luncheons for CSWAC faculty starting in January 2023. Faculty will be voting on the proposed luncheon themes at the CSWAC General Meeting on 11/21. Once the themes have been selected, we will send an announcement with all the details.

 

As for research funding, the Faculty Research Grants are now open to both senate faculty and non-senate faculty for the first time. Grants are awarded up to $6,000, maintaining last year’s increase of the award amount. You can access the application here. Applications are due on Friday, April 14, 2023.

 

We look forward to seeing you at the general meeting!

 

Best regards,

Katja

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Katja Antoine, PhD

Program and Research Developer | she/her/hers

UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center

 

Office: 1500 Public Affairs | www.csw.ucla.edu

Phone: (310) 825-5955 | Fax: (310) 825-0456 

 

The UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center acknowledges the Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and are grateful to have the opportunity to work for the taraaxatom (indigenous peoples) in this place. As a land grant institution, we pay our respects to Honuukvetam (Ancestors), 'Ahiihirom (Elders), and 'eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

As a social justice feminist research center, CSW’s fundamental purpose is the support and development of social justice feminist research projects. That support and development includes the faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and staff members who conduct and manage those projects, as well as the relationships they foster with members of our community outside of UCLA. 

 

One of the stated priorities of CSW’s leadership team and other stakeholders is to create an incentive for UCLA faculty to house their research projects at CSW, and to attract faculty to serve in leadership positions at the center. Their broader objective is to foster feminist campus leaders, to retain women-of-color feminist faculty at UCLA, and to support the people who conduct the research in addition to funding their research projects. 

 

The recent gift to CSW from the Streisand Foundation presents an unprecedented opportunity to grow and expand the center’s commitment to social justice feminist research. Part of this expansion can be achieved by creating a dynamic program explicitly directed toward faculty and research development. For years, CSW has produced rigorous research, events, and publications on limited funds and minimal staffing. It has, however, been a challenge for the center to attract faculty to bring their research projects to CSW and develop it at the center, and to be part of the center’s leadership team. This proposal for a CSW Faculty and Research Development (FRD) initiative seeks to address that challenge. 

 

This proposal presents the data collected, a summary of the findings, and the proposed initial offerings.