Toward Racial Justice Conversation – May 25, 2021   Last year’s murder of George Floyd focused attention on confronting systemic racism and promoting racial justice as a combined national imperative. To commemorate and reflect on these legacies as well as the strategies going forward, the Office of Inclusive Excellence will host a Toward [...]

Dear campus community, Today marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. George Floyd's death simultaneously elevated attention to systemic anti-Black racism in the United States and spurred UCI to aspire to be the nation's foremost destination for Black people to thrive as students, faculty, staff and members of our community. UCI's Black [...]

  As a follow-up to Provost Stern’s March 31, 2021 message to employees regarding the Native American Cultural Affiliation and Repatriation Interim Policy (“Current Policy”), this is to inform you that the University of California Office of the President invites comments on a proposed Presidential Policy on Native American Cultural Affiliation and Repatriation. The proposed Policy [...]

Dear campus community, The UC Office of the President issued the Native American Cultural Affiliation and Repatriation Interim Policy on July 24, 2020 to clarify the process by which all UC campuses will implement the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and California NAGPRA (CalNAGPRA). NAGPRA protects Native American graves and requires [...]

Thank you to the 2020 LEAD Planning Committee adelí durón (co-chair) Joseph Morales (co-chair) Samantha Anderson Alex Camacho Sandra Campero Claudia Campos Jordie Conde Louis DeSipio Kevin Domínguez Doug Everhart Daniel Fabrega Michelle Foley Kimberly Macías Mariela Menéndez Veronica Ahumada Newhart Jessica Ortega Raslyn Rendon Santana Ruiz Alyssa Sanchez José Sánchez Amanda Sivgals Burt Álvaro [...]

Academic Excellence Black Scholars House   The Academic Excellence Black Scholars House is a first-year experience living learning community. Students residing in the House will learn to successfully navigate the university environment while embracing scholastic achievement and individual identity. Interested in being apart of the Academic Excellence Black Scholars House? Email: tboucher@uci.edu or [...]

Take the Pledge Honor Roll Take the Pledge has received over 1,000 signatories from the UCI community, comprised  of faculty, staff, students and campus affiliates. Community members have pledged to: ⋅ Acknowledge the existence of anti-Black racism ⋅ Understand their relationship to anti-Black and micro- and macro-aggressions ⋅ Recognize uncredited labor that Black people expend [...]

<<Back to Black Thriving Initiative Inclusive Excellence Term Chairs: Inaugural Theme Black Thriving The Inclusive Excellence Term Chair program will focus on a national imperative and/or global challenge. It provides an opportunity for the campus to recognize distinguished research, teaching and service of incumbent faculty in contributing to the selected theme. The inaugural theme for [...]