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.
Strengthening UCI’s Community: Observance of LGBTQ+ Month in June
In celebration of the upcoming Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQ+) Pride Month in June, I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge our diverse LGBTQ+ community and recommit ourselves to advancing inclusive excellence for all members of the UCI community. This year is especially significant because it coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in Greenwich Village, New York, which began on June 28, 1969, as a series of spontaneous uprisings near Christopher Street and led by gay residents and patrons of the Stonewall Inn. While a police raid was the immediate cause, the…
Call for Proposals: Department of Education – Applications for New Awards; Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program
The US Department of Education’s Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (DHSI) Program provides grants to assist Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)—such as UCI—to expand educational opportunities for, and improve the academic attainment of, Hispanic students. HSIs interested in applying to this grant program can use the development of their comprehensive plan to examine the alignment of their mission and current strategic plan with the needs of the target population and surrounding community to develop, enhance, and implement leadership, practice, and policies that best promote student success. Moreover, HSIs can use their plans as road maps to help all students, especially those with the highest…
Dr. Ann Hironaka receives the inaugural Frances Leslie DECADE Mentor Excellence Award
A MESSAGE FROM VICE PROVOST DOUGLAS HAYNES 2019 Frances M. Leslie DECADE Mentor Excellence Award Dean Frances Leslie had a vision years ago to create the DECADE mentor program. Since its inception, almost 115 faculty members have served in this role, committing to diversity, equity, and inclusion – and to ensuring an inclusive environment for graduate success. This year, the Office of Inclusive Excellence solicited nominations from across campus for the inaugural DECADE Mentor Excellence Award, and has named this award after the woman whose vision made this all possible: Graduate Dean Frances Leslie. The inaugural awardee of the Frances…
DREAM Project Fellowship
Dear Campus Colleagues, UCI undocumented students—especially those without DACA—are facing a crisis. Students who lack federal work permits are unable to support themselves through employment. This is a significant detriment to the professional development of our students and puts them in financially precarious positions. The UCI DREAM Center has created an opportunity for you to help provide students with professional development and economic support—the DREAM Project Fellowship (DPF). DPF will pair undocumented fellows with campus placement sites for the 2019-2020 academic year. Fellows will complete projects that add value to the placement sites and placement sites will fund a $3,600…
Fortifying Our Campus Community by Confronting Extremism and Hate
Dear Campus Community, “Hello Brother” is how a Muslim worshiper greeted a visitor to a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand last Friday. The visitor entered the Al Noor Mosque with hate in his heart and armed with weapons to kill as many people as possible. The subsequent attack on this mosque and a second at Linwood Mosque resulted in the deaths of at least 50 people – men, women and children. Many others were wounded. Motivated by anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and white supremacist ideology, this act of Islamophobia was designed to cause even greater psychological and emotional damage to Muslim people…
