The Project CREST Team conducted an inventory of 10 years of campus awards and seed grants available to UCCS tenure-stream faculty and gathered available demographic data on past winners. Our team then evaluated the award nomination calls for their fairness, transparency, and inclusivity by utilizing an adapted coding rubric for equity-minded faculty evaluations (O’Meara, 2022). Results of the inventory and subsequent qualitative coding suggest past campus awards have been inequitably distributed among men- and women-identified faculty and that there is considerable room for improving both the award nomination calls and the strategies used in evaluation of nominees. Recommendations and templates are provided to help units improve their award documents and processes.
