Our Activities

Equity in Action
Grant Program

Investing Resources Back Into The System

The Network’s Equity in Action Grant (EIA) Program seeks to invest resources back into the system to identify, understand, and disrupt inequities, as well as focus on opportunities for students to learn, engage, progress, and complete courses on time. The intention of this program is to draw faculty, staff, students, and middle level administrators to support innovative thinking, research, and evidence-based practices that lead to institutional change and specifically address equity-related challenges. 

Our target applicants are middle leaders in the CSU. This program prioritizes projects that were characterized by an action-research orientation that focuses on measurable “on the ground” activities already in process or that are ready for action soon after funding. These grants are not designed to support purely research activities. 

Requests for Proposals for the EIA Grants are now closed! 

Read the Final Report on impacts from the 2021 EIA Grants.

RFPs are Closed

The goals of the Equity in Action Grant Program include:

  • Supporting current efforts at CSU campuses to close equity gaps in student outcomes in cases where the funding can expand or improve such efforts
  • Launching new efforts at CSU campuses to close equity gaps in student outcomes
  • Generating a knowledge base of supported equity actions across the CSU and to allow for determinations as to which of these efforts are most effective or impactful
  • Learning about challenges in implementing equity actions across the CSU campuses via progress reports and final reports from funded activities

Grant Recipients

Kim Flachmann

Strengthening the Relationship Between Writing Assignments and Equity

kflachmann@csub.edu

The “Strengthening the Relationship between Writing Assignments and Equity” program at CSU Bakersfield, spearheaded by Kim Flachmann, Ph.D., ran from June 2022 until December 2023. The program aimed to lower DFW rates in specific general education course, particularly among first generation, Latinx and Black students. The program integrated writing tutors in specific courses, resulting in significant improvements in pass rates and course completions compared to control groups. The embedded tutor program helped achieve lower DFW rates and better grades across several courses from different disciplines. Despite challenges in engaging students in online classes, the program demonstrated the effectiveness of targeted writing support in enhancing academic outcomes. CSU Bakersfield plans to continue to expand the embedded tutoring and faculty professional development efforts, anticipating permanent positive changes in its tutoring services.

Previous Grant Recipients

Kimberly N. White

Does the Use of an Interactive General Chemistry Textbook Improve Student Perceptions of and Use of the Textbook and Increase Equitable Outcomes?

kim.white@humboldt.edu