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.
Juneteenth 2021 ♥ ★
Dear campus community, Yesterday President Joseph Biden signed into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. By creating this federal holiday, the United States government marks an important milestone in the protracted struggle for national accountability for the institution of slavery and its afterlife. The date June 19, 1865 brought the Emancipation Proclamation full circle. Issued by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862, the proclamation emancipated enslaved Black people in states in rebellion against the government of the United States. Until the Union prevailed, the enforcement of the proclamation did not…
A Message from Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, Hal Stern | UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Cluster Hiring Program Outcome ★
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the outcome of the inaugural call for proposals for the UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Cluster Hiring Program. As announced last fall, the program is a competitive multi-year effort to recruit faculty who interrogate structural racism in its myriad forms. As part of the UCI Black Thriving Initiative, the program aims to build on the hiring priorities of academic units; pave new paths for research and creative expression, teaching and learning, and community engagement; generate interdisciplinary collaboration; and manifest our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. We received a total of 17 proposals,…
Resurgence of Anti-Semitism ♥
Dear campus community, Last month the country witnessed a resurgence of attacks on Jewish Americans. Assailants in the Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles set upon two diners. In the Fairfax district, a driver chased an Orthodox Jewish man before he found refuge in a synagogue. In New York’s Times Square, a mob attacked an individual wearing a yarmulke. These attacks are being investigated as possible hate crimes. Distressingly the number of anti-Semitic crimes and incidents has continued to increase over the past several years. They involve the defacing of synagogues and yeshivas, physical assaults and intimidation, and online trolling….
Pride Month 2021 ♥★
Dear campus community, June is Pride month, a celebration of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) communities. It is an occasion to recognize the struggle for equality marked by the Stonewall riots in 1969 and continues to this day. As such, this observance honors the contributions and sacrifices that the LGBTQ community has made to the making of a more perfect union. Pride matters a great deal at UCI. Members of the LGBTQ communities constitute an integral part of UCI’s past, present and future. They are our undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni and communities served by…
