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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 Hosts 50 HBCU Undergraduates in a Range of Disciplines
UC Irvine Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIE) partnered with faculty across campus to welcome 50 undergraduate students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to campus for a summer research experience. Supported by OIE and the Graduate Division, the students attended a welcome event where they had the opportunity to meet faculty, staff and fellows students as well as community members. The groups of students, some of whom were funded by the UC-HBCU initiative, worked in Nursing, the Merage School of Business, the Summer Institute in Neuroscience, ACES and BRIGHT, and the School of Medicine. Dr. Tonya Bradford, who ran…
2022 Women’s History Month
Dear campus community, The recent nomination of federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the nation’s highest court and the 2021 election of Michelle Wu as mayor of Boston remind us of the importance of celebrating Women’s History month. Originating in a week-long celebration hosted in Sonoma, California in 1978, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed March Women’s History month in 1980. Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in its 232-year history. Mayor Wu is the first Asian American woman elected to lead one of the oldest municipalities in the country. The historic…
2022 UCI Community Safety Survey Now Open Share your opinion about public safety at UCI ♥ ✚
Dear campus community, As part of a campus and systemwide effort, several offices have worked together to create our first UCI Community Safety Survey. The Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIE) is launching this survey today and making it available to all university staff, faculty, and students at the Irvine and Orange locations. Click here to access a link to the survey and provide your responses Community safety is indispensable to our mission as a great public research university. The purpose of this survey is to understand your experiences and expectations concerning safety, to get a sense of how relevant services…
DACA Ruling in Texas – We Are Inextricably Bound Together as Members of the UCI Community ♥ ✚
Dear campus community, Last Friday, a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unlawful, halting the program’s ability to accept new applicants. While this is very concerning, please understand that many actions are in motion to preserve DACA. The Biden Administration will file an appeal, which could lead to further review by the United States Supreme Court, and the Department of Homeland Security will explore an administrative rule-making avenue. If allowed to stand, this ruling will drastically impact the futures of nearly one million undocumented people, their families and their communities. Since…
