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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.
UCI NEW | Latinx Excellence and Achievement Awards recognizes Hispanic and Latinx graduate students ♥ ★
Latinx Excellence and Achievement Awards recognizes Hispanic and Latinx graduate students UCI News | April 2, 2021 The 2021 Latinx Excellence and Achievement Awards took place April 1 as a virtual gala. In its fourth year, UCI’s LEAD remains the only celebration and awards event in the University of California system focused on Hispanic and Latinx graduate student success. This year’s event welcomed remarks by Chancellor Howard Gillman and UCI Foundation Trustee Gaddi Vasquez and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla. It recognized graduate research excellence and achievement in all 15 academic units at UCI based on nominations from the senior leadership in the…
Congratulations Eloy Ortiz Oakley! 2021 Recipient of the Diverse Champions Award ♥ ★
Congratulations Eloy Ortiz Oakley! 2021 Recipient of the Diverse Champions Award Diverse will honor Mr. Oakley with a special career tribute in our April 1, 2021 edition. Please join us and many other institutions, organizations, and colleagues in this recognition of his career achievements by placing a congratulatory/celebratory message. Your message can be placed in print, online or both. Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley embodies the impact that California Community Colleges are having in transforming lives. He grew up in the Florence-Firestone area of south east Los Angeles in the mid-1970s and early 1980s, the son of an American-born father who was schooled…
Honoring the Legacy of José Flores Velázquez | Donate to the Graduate Division Fellowship Fund ★
Honoring the Legacy of José Flores Velázquez Donate to the Graduate Division Fellowship Fund UCI is honoring José Flores Velázquez, a former UCI Physics & Astronomy PhD student who tragically passed away on August 14, 2019 due to a drive-by shooting near his family home in Los Angeles, California. José was an academic super star and an inspiration to us all. He held a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and was on track to an impactful career in astrophysics when he lost his life. Your donation to the Graduate Division General Fellowship Fund in memory of José Flores…
UCI NEWS | Ensuring college access for first-gen students ★
Regent and UCI alumnus Eloy Ortiz Oakley discusses his first-gen journey
Hispanic Heritage Month: UCI as a Latinx Thriving University ♥★
Dear Campus Community, Hispanic Heritage Month is an occasion to recognize the many achievements of the diverse Latinx community. This year’s observance is mixed with joy and sadness. Death and sickness have visited far too many families while the economic fallout has disrupted countless lives. As the campus carefully begins reopening for the start of the new academic year, let us acknowledge the Latinx employees who are engaged in the essential and honorable work of advancing UCI’s core mission in Irvine and Orange. The present context underscores UCI’s aspiration to be the nation’s leading Latinx Thriving University. This aspiration emerged…
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,…