Bronco Launch Pad: CEIS Initiatives

The university launched a crownfunding campaign called Bronco Launch Pad. This two week online crowdfunding event ran from October 16th - 27th. This event gave the opportunity for donors to support new projects and intiatives.

CEIS launched two new intiatives. Together these two intiatives successfully raised $4,400 of their $5,000 goal. 

Afrofuturism Initiative: supports the advancing of Black student success and elevating Black excellence across student, staff, faculty, and community spaces. 

Afroturism celebrates the themes of imagination, technology, liberation, and the future.

Afrofuturist Scholars (student-focused) and Afrofuturist Fellows (faculty-focused) who have a demonstrated knowledge and experiences will be recruited to help facilitate the goals of the initiative:

• Leverage interdisciplinary, culturally relevant approaches for deeper partnerships with on-campus and community-based entities;
• Bolster pipeline programming and academic pathways with K-12 and California Community Colleges;
• Grow funding for and access to increased student participation in High-Impact practices;
• Enhance support for professional, career, and leadership opportunities; 
• Employ evidence-based strategies to impact recruitment, retention, and development;
• Develop structured programming and community collaborations that center Black joyin educational and community spaces through musical and artistic activism;
• Increase capacity for the development and implementation of anti-racist, decolonizing, and Black liberatory pedagogies, scholarship, and creative activities;
• Cultivate resources for free access, distribution, and practical use in schools, community colleges, and community settings.

Community-Care and Wellness (C3W) Initiative: supports those who need help navagating through a post pandemic world and are impacted with many everyday issues like; food insecurity, racial injustices, housing instability, socioeconomic challenges, isolation, grief, trauma, exacerbated physical and mental health conditions. C3W will recruit Student Scholars and Faculty Fellows who are committed to and have demonstrated experiences in social justice and civic engagement for the purposes of: 

• Partnering with diverse communities to identify and prioritize equity and social justice issues;
• Leveraging an interdisciplinary team of stakeholders (e.g., students, staff, faculty, community members) to facilitate community-centric conversations around areas of priority;
• Developing next steps related to action items in the form of advocacy and social action;
• Providing recommendations for program intervention and transformation and/or practice-based research activities on campus and in partnership with communities;
• Distributing findings using diverse platforms as part of intentional community-outreach efforts and coalition building on campus and in partnership with communities.