AANAPISI
Below you'll find our post category archive. Note that many titles will have , , and at the end of the text. These help identify pages, posts, and events representing our three core values: Community, Thriving, and Wellness. To learn more about this, read about our Action Plan. These also all help support our #ActForInclusion.
Message on Anti-Asian Discrimination ♥
Dear campus community, From coast to coast, Asian and Asian-American communities are experiencing an alarming number of acts of bias, prejudice and bigotry. From 2019 to 2020 alone, nearly 3,000 acts were reported. Orange County is no exception. Here the Human Rights Commission reports a 10-fold increase in anti-Asian incidents and crimes. These disturbing trends do not include under reported incidents of verbal harassment, spitting and other forms of intimidation and physical violence that can take place anywhere — on the street or sidewalk, in a neighborhood park, a shopping center or mall, or place of work among others. Nor…
Office of Inclusive Excellence | Inclusive Excellence and the UCI Police Department ♥ ★ ✚
To the Anteater community: We are writing to announce several actions to further align the UCI Police Department with our commitment to inclusive excellence and confronting anti-Black racism. This commitment is grounded in a community where all expect equity, support diversity, practice inclusion and honor free speech. Realizing this commitment mandates a campus police department that serves our university community according to these principles. These actions further UCI Police Department’s work to continuously improve service and relationships with the University’s diverse community and build on the recommendations of the 2019 Presidential Taskforce Report on Universitywide Policing. We are also acting…
UCI LEADERSHIP | In Support of the African American Community ♥ ★ ✚
Dear UCI Community: We watched with shock and horror the video of a white policeman callously, even casually, kneeling on the neck of an unarmed and unresisting black man until that man was dead, while other policemen stood by and watched. This brutal and racist act was like something out of Mississippi during Jim Crow, out of the past we don’t acknowledge enough, but it wasn’t. It is our reality, in the here and now, a reality that reflects the harsh, brutal, terrible, ongoing legacy of America’s original sin. We empathize with the pain, sadness, and anger that many Black…
GRADUATE DIVISION | A Message for the DECADE Community on Behalf of Graduate Dean Gillian Hayes ♥★✚
Dear DECADE mentors and DECADE student community, I am writing to you today with a heavy heart and a humble request for your help in supporting our many students, post-docs, faculty, and staff who are struggling right now. As if 2020 wasn’t hard enough, this past week has pushed many past our limits. We are faced with unconscionable Anti-Black police violence and anti-Chinese xenophobia and threats to the global educational mission of ours and other universities. We know very little about the practical and logistical impacts of these activities and measures right now. What I do know, for certain, however,…
Challenging Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia during COVID-19 ♥ ✚
Learning outcomes of the Webinar: Address the current state of Anti-Asian racism Discuss the historical relevance and context Explore different opportunities for all of us to practice allyship Resources: Land Acknowledgement + Support Indigenous Communities Which indigenous land are you on? Find out here: https://native-land.ca Navajo Nation is the highest COVID-19 infected area in the US. A few of the organizations that are supporting native communities Partnership with Native Americans Native Americans in Philanthropy Native American Health Center Xenophobia and Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 (and beyond) Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center – https://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/ Learn History: PBS Asian Americans Documentary –…
Recognizing Mentorship and Achievement at UCI ♥ ★
Dear Campus Community This spring quarter is like no other. COVID-19 has demanded more from each of us than we imagined at the start of 2020. Greater courage in the face of uncertainty; will to adjust to new learning and working conditions; and faith in the indomitable human spirit to rise to new challenges. These are the attributes of the Anteater spirit. That spirit will animate the virtual commencement later in June when thousands of undergraduates, graduates and medical students will receive their hard-earned diplomas. I want to extend my warm Congratulations to the Class of 2020! Savor this achievement….
Dr. Sora Han Receives 2nd Annual Frances Leslie DECADE Mentor Excellence Award ♥ ★
Dr. Sora Han, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society (CLS), the School of Law, and the Department of African American Studies, and the Director of the PhD Program in Culture and Theory in the School of Humanities, is the 2020 recipient of the Frances M. Leslie DECADE Mentor Excellence Award. Among her many activities, as DECADE Mentor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, Dr. Han developed programming that impacted students from the undergraduate to graduate level in her department, school, campus, and beyond. For example, in 2015-2016, she received a Graduate Growth Incentive Award…
6 UCI Scholars – AANAPISI Scholarship Program ★
As part of an ongoing partnership with APIA Scholars, 6 UCI students received AANAPISI Scholarship Program awards in AY 19-20, totaling $22,500. To date, UCI students have been awarded $57,500 through this program (AY 17-18, 18-19, and 19-20).