UC’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement $20K Non-Residential Fellowships

The Heart is accepting functions till March 10; try the small print right here. (I am on e of the Advisory Board members.) An excerpt:

Annually, the Heart selects Fellows from a broad vary of disciplines and backgrounds comparable to legislation, journalism, greater schooling, social science, know-how and authorities. Fellows obtain funding to conduct analysis that furthers the nationwide dialog associated to expression and democratic participation on school campuses together with learn how to advance campus dialogue, safeguard tutorial freedom and additional variety and inclusion.

The Heart welcomes candidates from all backgrounds to use, and invitations a variety of revolutionary tasks. As a part of the College of California, the Heart is dedicated to selling variety and equal alternative in its schooling, companies and administration, in addition to analysis and artistic exercise. The Heart focuses on tasks that handle present points affecting college students, workers, directors and college and could have a direct affect on people and communities throughout campus, significantly these from susceptible or marginalized communities….

This 12 months we’re significantly fascinated about points that discover the connections between greater schooling and democracy comparable to:

• Increased schooling’s function in supporting democracy and democratic studying;
• Tips on how to incorporate civic engagement and democratic studying into on a regular basis life and studying on campus;
• Understanding what motivates civic engagement amongst various campus teams.

We additionally welcome further themes, subjects and actions that match throughout the Heart’s mission which can embrace (not an exhaustive record):

• Efficient strategies to show and construct abilities for dialogue throughout distinction; encouraging sturdy dialog out and in of the classroom;
• How greatest to safeguard tutorial freedom in response to the nationwide and world local weather together with legislative assaults and different threats to the creation and transmission of information;
• The connection between free speech, information and falsehoods amid campaigns of disinformation and misinformation;
• Exploring the interplay between variety, inclusion and expression on campus;
• Navigating values-based polarization and political partisanship in greater schooling;
• The connection between worldwide occasions and expression on campus….