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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.

Women's History Month

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…

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2022 Community Safety Survey tinyurl.com/UCICSS22

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…

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President Drake

UCOP | Celebrating Black History Month at the University of California ♥ ★

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GEAR UP project

UCI NEWS | UCI awarded additional $5.2 million grant to support GEAR UP project ♥★

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NCLINE LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES | Leading Black Thriving in Higher Education ♥ ★

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Director Raven Baxter

ORANGE COAST MAGAZINE | Raven Baxter is the New Director of Diversity Initiatives at UC Irvine’s School of Biological Sciences ♥ ★

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VC-Haynes

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…

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LA TIMES | UC admits largest, most diverse class ever, but it was harder to get accepted ♥ ★

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2021-22 Hellman Fellows

UCI NEWS | Seven faculty members named 2021-22 Hellman Fellows ★

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VC-Haynes

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at UCI ♥ ★

Dear campus community, UCI students, staff, faculty and community members are invited to celebrate the diverse and impactful contributions of individuals of Asian and Asian American descent through a variety of offerings at UCI and beyond this May. These activities also highlight the need for vigilance and allyship to stem a wave of over 3,700 anti-Asian incidents reported so far during the current pandemic (https://stopaapihate.org/2020-2021-national-report/). Since its origins in 1978 and with its passage as an officially designated month of celebration in 1992, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month has recognized the diversity and influences of more than 22.9…

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