National Conference on Race & Ethnicity

National Conference on Race + Ethnicity (NCORE)

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2024 Application Deadline Has Passed

The Feb. 29 deadline for funding applications has passed. The steps listed below are no longer in effect for this year.

More Information

• Application Steps

  • You MUST submit the supplemental application along with the Adobe Sign application.  
  • If you click to open the supplemental application and a log-in screen pops up, enter 1@fhda.edu and it will take you to the CWID login screen.
  • If you have already applied for CTF funding for NCORE 2024, please your existing CTF application and submit the supplemental before the deadline.
  • If you are worried about hotels or airline flights filling up, consider making refundable reservations in the interim.
  • Early bird registration is available until March 31, so you will have plenty of time to register for the conference after hearing back about your CTF application. 

• Award Limitations

  We can fund awards of $1800 for up to 20 faculty members and $1600 for up to 10 classified professionals. The dollar amounts are the maximum per individual applicant per academic year.

  Although we can provide more awards than usual because of roll-over funds left from COVID, the overall cost of NCORE is more than $3,000, so the maximum CTF awards defrays only part of the cost.

• Before Applying

  Please consult your dean or manager about other funding sources (grant, workforce, equity dollars, etc.) that can pay the full cost of your attendance or can supplement your potential CTF award BEFORE you apply for CTF funding.  

  If your dean/manager determines your attendance can be fully funded or supplemented beyond a CTF award through another source, a CTF award or a supplemental scholarship can be available for one of your colleagues.

  In addition, please determine if you can afford to pay the gap between your available funding and the total cost of attendance. 

• Scholarships

  The Equity and Engagement Division is offering a limited number of scholarships up to $1000 to supplement CTF funding.  To be eligible, you must determine that your dean or manager does not have supplemental funds. Scholarships will be awarded based on your answers to the supplemental application. 

• Supplemental Application

  The supplemental questionnaire identifies the criteria that the CTF committee will use in their selection process and the Equity and Engagement Division will use in their consideration for scholarships.  

  Since equity is at the core of everything that all of us do at De Anza, the committee will ensure that different disciplines and work areas of campus are represented at NCORE.  One of the intentions behind conference funding is that attendees bring home ideas to share. Diverse representation across campus optimizes this capacity.

  Your willingness to present what you learned at a “NCORE at De Anza” event during fall quarter 2025 and/or the other listed opportunities for equity leadership are important considerations for both committees.

• Funding Calculations

  For those of you interested in how conference funding works, here are some details and numbers for you: De Anza has yearly contractual access to $120,000 for faculty and $30,000 for classified professionals.  Summer money apportionment has been $20,000 for faculty and $5000 for classified professionals.  The remaining amounts have been divided equally over the three quarters of the academic year, totaling $33,333 for faculty and $6,666 for classified professionals per quarter.

  NCORE, the Online Teaching Conference, and the League for Innovation are all scheduled during spring quarter and account for the highest CTF requests.  In fact, NCORE expenses account for about 60% of most spring allocations.  This amounts to roughly $20,000 (11.11 $1800 awards) for faculty and roughly $4000 (2.49 $1600 awards) for classified professionals.

  We will be using limited roll-over funds from COVID to bring these numbers up to $36,000 (20 $1800 awards) for faculty and $16,000 (10 $1600 awards) for classified professionals.  This will leave money to fund the other spring conferences for faculty and classified professionals. Because the roll-over funding is not sustainable over the long-term and because spring has the largest number of requests for CTF funding, the committee is considering shifting the allocated amounts for each quarter to represent the proportional number of CTF applications more accurately.

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About NCORE

The NCORE conference focuses on the complex task of creating and sustaining comprehensive institutional change designed to improve racial and ethnic relations on campus and to expand opportunities for educational access and success by culturally diverse, traditionally underrepresented populations.

NCORE is designed to provide a significant forum for discussion, critical dialogue, and exchange of information as institutions search for effective strategies to enhance access, social development, education, positive communication, and cross-cultural understanding in culturally diverse settings.    

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Contact Us!

For questions, please contact

• Sal Breiter, faculty coordinator, breitersal@deanza.edu
• Claudia Guzman, program coordinator, guzmanclaudia@deanza.edu