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.

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Anteater Insights: Inclusive Excellence Spirit Grants

Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to announce the recipients of the 2016 Inclusive Excellence Spirit Grants. Inclusive excellence is integral to UCI’s ascendancy among globally preeminent universities. Our commitment to this concept inclusive excellence informs our research, teaching and service missions as a land-grant public research university. The purpose of the Spirit Awards is to stimulate campus capacity to advance equity, diversity and inclusion in our academic programs and in the many communities served by UCI. Toward this end, all funded proposals are expected to address at least one of five aspirational goals: Deepen understanding of race, gender, class, sexuality,…

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Assistant Professor Franklin Dollar and Assistant Professor Chang Liu honored as 2016 Sloan Fellows

We congratulate UCI faculty members Franklin Dollar and Chang Liu who have been selected as 2016 Sloan Fellows, a significant distinction for early career scientists. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the awards on Feb. 23. Franklin Dollar, assistant professor in physics and astronomy, specializes in plasma physics, and is a member of the Dry Creek Band of Pomo Indians. His lab studies the interaction of light at extremely high intensities with the fourth state of matter, plasma. There is a potential for these sources to have wide-reaching applications including medical physics and fusion energy, as well as the potential…

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New study demonstrates the effectiveness of UCI Equity Advisor Model

UCI Works to ADVANCE Women in Higher Education: Professor Judy Stepan-Norris and her co-author demonstrate that UCI out-performed other UC campuses in hiring women faculty during the study period (1993-2009). Professor Stepan-Norris shows that the Equity Advisor model together with greater transparency in the search process contributed to impressive hiring gains after 2001.

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New Guidelines for Addressing Race and Gender Equity in Academic Programs

February 17, 2016 Dear Colleagues, I want to bring to your attention a new inclusive excellence resource entitled Guidelines for Addressing Race and Gender Equity in Academic Programs in Compliance with Proposition 209. (It is available at http://www.ucop.edu/general-counsel/guidance/enhancing-diversity-at-uc.html.) Produced by the University of California Office of the President, these guidelines broadly describe strategies for diversity programming that can be legally implemented to advance the University of California’s enduring commitment to inclusive excellence.  These strategies include: Programs that are targeted by race or gender but do not provide preferences or benefits not generally available to all. Programs that are not targeted…

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Climate Monitor: Homophobic Event

Date Early 2016 (approximately) Event Homophobic Event Action Response from Dr. Haynes, Vice Provost for Academic Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (included below) Dear Campus Community, A number of posters, advertising a student-sponsored event, have appeared on campus using offensive language directed at members of the campus community. One such poster included the word “faggotry”. Homophobia as well as other forms of bias contradicts our campus’ enduring commitment to inclusive excellence. Let me be clear: bigotry has no place here or anywhere. This type of incident should be a reminder about what connects us: UCI. Every member of our community chooses…

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Anteater Insights: Douglas M. Haynes

Dear Colleagues, This February, we celebrate Black History Month, also known as National African American History Month. An annual celebration of achievements by black Americans, it is a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month, and other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also devote a month to celebrating black history. . . Read More

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Formation of the Department of African American Studies

As of January 2016, African American studies has been established as a full-fledged department within the UCI School of Humanities, headed by Bridget Cooks, associate professor and director of the program, and now inaugural chair of the Department in African American Studies. UCI is now aligned with other UC campuses and national peer institutions with developed African American studies departments and establishes parity with related units at UCI that also began as interdisciplinary programs, including the departments of Asian American studies, Chicano/Latino studies, and gender and sexuality studies. For more information, go to: www.humanities.uci.edu/afam/program/index.php

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UCI NEWS | Drawing an ACE

Dalai Lama Scholar Mary Sargious spearheads a project pairing UCI mentors with foster and first-generation teens

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UCI NEWS | Life-changing support

UCI receives $1.1 million to help first-generation and low-income students

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