Faculty-Led Initiatives

Arts in Action
Arts in Action brings together artists, students, faculty, and staff to engage with the arts for building community and to explore creative and transformative possibilities at the individual and community level.
Arts in Action
Environmental Justice & Community Resilience
The Environmental Justice & Community Resilience (EJCR) program facilitates action research partnerships grounded in environmental justice and forges diverse campus-community collaborations.
Environmental Justice & Community Resilience
Global Studies Initiative
The Global Studies Initiative (GSI) supports programming that stresses the interaction of the local and the global and that aims to develop knowledge of global issues, connections, and processes as well as potential solutions to global problems.
Global Studies Initiative
HEARD
The Healthy, Equitable, and Responsive Democracy (HEARD) Initiative makes connections among researchers working on issues broadly related to democratic inclusion and responsiveness in the United States.
Healthy, Equitable, and Responsive Democracy Initiative
Native Indigenous Peoples
The Native Indigenous Peoples initiative provides important links between events, courses, programs and related presentations for and by Native Americans, Indigenous Peoples, and First Nations.
Native Indigenous Peoples
Urban Inequality & Incarceration
The Urban Inequality and Incarceration (UII) program explores intersections of race, inequality, mass imprisonment, policy and their connections to the carceral disparities present in our local and global communities.
Urban Inequality & Incarceration