The National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) is home to the Anti-Racism Collaborative, a strategic space created to facilitate University of Michigan (U-M) community engagement around research and scholarship focused on racial inequality, racial justice, and anti-racist praxis. The Anti-Racism Collaborative supports a variety of activities to catalyze innovation in research and scholarship, as well as informed practice, public engagement, and action to advance anti-racist principles and organizing.
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The Anti-Racism Collaborative is a part of the provost’s Anti-Racism Initiative, a cross-campus campaign focused on enhancing U-M’s capacity for advancing racial equity and justice in society.
Faculty Grants
The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) Anti-Racism Grants aim to catalyze innovative research and scholarship efforts that will advance knowledge and understanding around complex societal racial inequalities that can inform actions to achieve equity and justice.
These faculty grants were developed in partnership with the provost’s anti-racism initiative, and are jointly administered and advanced in partnership with the National Center for Institutional Diversity’s Anti-Racism Collaborative. The OVPR Anti-Racism Grants program will run for two cycles over fiscal years 2021-22, with $900K in funds to be awarded from OVPR across the two-year period. For each program cycle, up to seven proposals will be funded – five at levels up to $50K and two at levels up to $100K.
Grants are available for PI-eligible faculty at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses.
Graduate Student Grants
In support of the provost’s anti-racism initiative, and in partnership with the Rackham Graduate School and the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the National Center for Institutional Diversity’s Anti-Racism Collaborative (ARC) offers research grants that aim to support engagement in research projects focused on racism, racial equity, and racial justice while advancing graduate and professional student progress toward degree. Grants may provide support for a student’s own project extending from their faculty advisor’s research, or for a student’s independent scholarship supervised by a faculty mentor. A faculty support letter will be required as part of the funding application.
Projects should focus on topics and processes related to racism at structural, systemic, institutional, interpersonal and/or intrapersonal levels.
