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.
Call for Fellows – UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
Call for Fellows Ends on March 6, 2020 Thank you for your interest in the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement Fellows Program. The UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement explores how the fundamental democratic and academic principles of free speech and civic engagement should enrich the discovery and transmission of knowledge in America’s colleges and universities. We are now accepting applications for our 2020-2021 Fellows Program. About the Fellowship Each year, the Center selects up to 10 fellows from a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds such as law, journalism, higher…
THE RECIPROCAL CONNECTION: SERVICE AND ACTION TO COMMEMORATE MLK
Dear Campus Community, It is rewarding and inspirational to see members of UCI annually at the forefront in celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by promoting service. Their “boots-on-the-ground” efforts remind us that the legacy of Reverend King is being lived daily and our renewed energy is needed to attain the types of social justice and equity originally envisioned for African Americans by MLK and by those who sacrificed for civil rights efforts in the United States. This great holiday provided us a moment for reflection on the hard facts that African Americans in the US were undercounted by…
View the Event: A Debate on Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Michelle Goldberg has been an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times since 2017. She was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for public service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment. She is an author and previously served as a columnist at Slate. Bret Stephens joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in 2017. He previously served as deputy editorial page editor and foreign affairs columnist at The Wall Street Journal and editor and chief of The Jerusalem Post. <<Back to Confronting Extremism
Support for Undocumented Community at UCI
Dear colleagues, On November 12, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. The University of California is supporting this effort. The Court is expected to issue a decision by June 2020 and the lives of hundreds of thousands of undocumented individuals may be impacted. As the Supreme Court hearing approaches, we expect heightened attention related to undocumented individuals and issues. In anticipation, we would like to reiterate important principles of support for undocumented members of the UCI community. The University of California and UC Irvine welcome and…
University of California Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative (UC-HSI DDI)
UC Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative Dear colleagues, In late September, University of California Provost Michael T. Brown announced the UC Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative (HSI-DDI), see PDF attached. By mobilizing the extensive number of federally designated public and private four-year HSIs in California, the initiative aims to transform the professoriate by enhancing pathways to graduate education and supporting graduate student preparation for the professoriate. To this end, the initiative is open to support all students who are currently attending a California HSI based on faculty/project criteria, regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, or gender identity….
UCI Provost Initiative on Contemporary Issues: Understanding Domestic Terrorism
CALL FOR PROPOSALS – UCI Provost Initiative on Contemporary Issues: Understanding Domestic Terrorism Dear Campus Community, As part of our efforts to advance and expand the Confronting Extremism program, the Provost Initiative on Contemporary Issues: Understanding Domestic Terrorism requests UCI senate faculty proposals that explore the origins and sources, causes and consequences, methods and modalities, representations and discourses, and responses to and engagement with domestic terrorism . As background, our national attention is now drawn to the looming challenge of domestic terrorism. With a distressing increase in ideologically motivated mass shootings or killings, we have reached a tipping point that…
Inclusive Excellence Certificate Program: An Update
UCI is more diverse, but is it more equitable and more inclusive? This fall, the Office of Inclusive Excellence launched a certificate program to explore this question. The certificate program is open to UCI students, staff, and faculty. Participants who complete the program core course, UCI as a Minority Thriving University, plus one of the elective courses, either Wellness or Community, will receive an Inclusive Excellence certificate. The call for applications was released campus-wide in early September. Almost three hundred applications were received for thirty spaces. To accommodate interest in the program, additional sections are planned for winter and spring….