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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.
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 the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs | Bridging the Gap: Pharmacy Deserts ♥ ✚
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Bridging the Gap: Pharmacy Deserts Access to fresh food, safe shelter and health services all support the wellbeing of communities—their absence in neighborhoods of color leads to health inequities. Over the last decade, pharmacies have closed in low-income neighborhoods and new ones have opened at more profitable locations. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend. The straight line between pharmacy closures and dangerous health outcomes is well documented. In this essay, part of the Bridging the Gap series where we focus on health equity, Cheryl Wisseh, health sciences assistant clinical professor, Department…
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…
UC President Michael V. Drake reflects on Black History Month ♥ ★ ✚
This Black History Month, UC President Michael V. Drake reflects on the Black workers, scholars, artists and activists who have propelled the University of California-and the world-forward and the work that remains to achieve our ideals of equality, inclusion and justice.
