Poster Contest Application
Diversity Week 2015
Deadline: June 30, 2015
2015 Diversity Week Poster Competition Rules
Please read these
competition rules
carefully before you
submit your poster.
THEME: RESPECT UCF
Engaging, Exploring and Advancing an Inclusive Culture
UCF Diversity Week is a celebration of our diverse community and an
opportunity to explore topics across the broad range of human identity,
experience and interaction. Diversity Week activities are intended to stimulate
our campus and move us to a more inclusive culture.
This year we kick off the RESPECT UCF Campaign for Diversity and
Inclusion. UCF is strongest as a higher education institution, employer and
community leader when we bring diverse thought and experience to our
decision-making, teaching, research, and interactions among community
members. Respect for and the inclusion of diverse voices
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2014 First Place Design
Ebone Grayson
drive innovative thought and action;
maximize the talent and contributions of faculty, staff, and students;
improve recruitment and retention; and
build a campus more representative of our constituents and Central
Florida partners.
The winning poster will reflect a campus that values diversity and inclusion and
successfully represents our theme through the power of visual art.
AWARDS:
 Grand Prize (1): $500, campus and community recognition, inclusion
in UCF Library display
 Second Prize (2): $150, campus and community recognition,
inclusion in UCF Library display
 Third Prize (3): $100, campus and community recognition, inclusion
in UCF Library display
 Top 15 Student entries: Will be included in the UCF Library wall
display for 30 days.
 All entries: inclusion in an online image gallery on our web site at
www.diveristy.ucf.edu
JURY SELECTION:
Jurors will review all submitted designs to determine the three grand prize
winners and designs, one of which will be selected to be the poster
representative of the 2015 Diversity Week. In addition, they will also select the
twelve (12) honorable mentions that will be on display on the UCF Library Wall
during the month of October. Although submissions will be presented to jurors
anonymously, no jury member or any member of their immediate family may
compete in the contest.
Diversity Includes All of Us – All The Time
Poster Contest Application
Diversity Week 2015
Deadline: June 30, 2015
ENTRY SPECIFICATIONS:
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Designs should be new, original work. Please do not submit work previously done for a client.
Design can be part of an extra credit piece for a class.
Designs will be anonymous during the judging process; therefore, they must not be signed or bear any
other distinguishing marks.
Designs must include:
o ODI Unit Identifier*
o 2015 Diversity Week – Theme
o 2015 Diversity Week October 12 -16, 2015
*ODI will provide you with the Unit Identifier (Department Logo) to be used in the design. Otherwise,
designs should be free of logos and copyrighted material. See www.brand.ucf.edu for UCF Marketing’s
Brand and Identity Guidelines.
Designs must be presented in vertical/portrait format.
Participants may submit up to two (2) designs.
TECHINICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
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18” width x 24” height
300 DPI
Color
PDF Format
Maximum file size 10MB
DEADLINE:
Monday, June 30, 2015 12:00 Noon EST
Winners will be announced on Monday, July 13, 2015
If any entry infringes on someone else’s copyright by incorporating work that someone else owns the
copyright to without obtaining the owner’s permission first, entrant will be disqualified from the contest and
also hereby indemnifies and holds harmless UCF, including its Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the UCF
Board of Trustees, the State of Florida and the Florida Board of Governors and their respective
employees, agents, officers, volunteers and servants from any and all liabilities, responsibilities, claims,
damages, causes of action and/or losses arising out of or related to the student’s infringement.
This contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws.
The UCF Office of Diversity and Inclusion also reserves the right to disqualify submissions that are
deemed inappropriate or offensive by the UCF Office of Diversity and Inclusion, at its sole discretion.
UCF and the UCF Office of Diversity and Inclusion reserve the right to withdraw or terminate this contest
at any time without prior notice.
Please direct all questions to (407) 823 – 6479 or [email protected]
Diversity Includes All of Us – All The Time
Poster Contest Application
Diversity Week 2015
Deadline: June 30, 2015
Name: ________________________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
Phone Number: _________________________________________________________
Major: _________________________________________________________________
Class Standing: _________________________________________________________
(Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, or graduate student currently enrolled at UCF)
Please provide a brief explanation of how your artwork represents the 2015 Diversity Week theme.
By signing this application, you warrant and certify that this poster is your original creation, and by signing this form,
you hereby grant UCF and the UCF Office of Diversity and Inclusion a perpetual, non-revocable, royalty-free license
to copy, distribute, display and otherwise use, and authorize others to use, without further compensation to the
participating student, the poster for any educational, promotional and/or other purposes in any manner and medium
as determined by the UCF Office of Diversity and Inclusion, at its sole discretion. By signing this form, you hereby
also grant UCF and the UCF Office of Diversity and Inclusion the right to display your name and work. You
acknowledge that submitted materials become the physical property of UCF/UCF’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion
and will not be returned. You also verify that you are a student currently enrolled at the University of Central Florida
and that you are at least 18 years of age or older.
Signature: ____________________________________________
Date: ____________________
Submit completed form along with your design to [email protected].
UCF Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Research Pavilion,
12424 Research Parkway, Suite 169, Orlando, Florida 32826
Diversity Includes All of Us – All The Time