Recent News
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.
Take the Pledge! ♥★✚
Dear Campus Community, This fall, all UCI community members are encouraged to Take the Pledge as a first step in helping to shape a university culture where Black people can thrive. The Take the Pledge campaign builds on the UCI Black Thriving Initiative, which aims to respond to and recognize anti-Blackness as an existential threat to our mission as a great public research university. A Black thriving culture relies on all of us being accountable for confronting anti-Blackness where teaching and learning, discovery and creativity, and healing and serving take place at and on behalf of UCI. The purpose of…
UCI NEWS | Ensuring college access for first-gen students ★
Regent and UCI alumnus Eloy Ortiz Oakley discusses his first-gen journey
Chancellor Howard Gillman | Free Speech in Our Scholarly Community ♥
Dear Fellow Anteaters: As we start an exciting new academic year, I want to share some thoughts on the protections and norms of free speech on our campus. I deeply believe that it is possible to have robust free speech while treating each other with mutual respect. Freedom of speech is a bedrock value of our constitutional system and is at the core of UCI’s mission. Universities exist to provide the conditions for hard thought and difficult debate so that new knowledge can be generated and individuals can develop the capacity for independent judgment. This cannot happen if universities attempt…
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…
Introducing the UCI Black Thriving Initiative
Dear Campus Community, I am writing to announce the UCI Black Thriving Initiative, a far-reaching and ambitious vehicle for institutional transformation. In response to the protests against police violence directed at Black people and the persistence of systemic anti-Blackness, Chancellor Gillman on May 31 called for an unprecedented campus response to this national imperative. The UCI Black Thriving Initiative recognizes and responds to anti-Blackness as an existential threat to our mission as a public research university. By depriving Black people of their full participation in society and in university life, anti-Blackness compromises UCI’s capacity to educate, discover, create and…
Exploring Anti-Black Racism Through Courses
<< Return to Black Thriving Initiative Understanding Anti-Blackness in the United States Several new courses are free and open to all UCI students, staff, and faculty, and each for completion in five weeks. Module 1 – Anti-Blackness in the United States: Black Protest Tradition Module 2 – Anti-Blackness in the United States: Structures and Mechanisms of De-Valuing Black People Module 3 – Anti-Blackness in the United States: Change the Culture through Personal, Professional and Institutional Accountability The Inclusive Excellence Certificate Program The Inclusive Excellence Certificate Program advances UCI’s commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and free speech. It equips the campus community…