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 [...]
Cal Matters | A call for a California higher education compact for Black people African-American college graduate. Photo via iStock In Summary A new California compact has to mobilize the entire postsecondary education system to advance racial justice in the teaching mission. California demands a new compact for higher education – one that [...]
<<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 [...]
‘We do belong here’: The scientist behind #BlackInNeuro hopes to transform a Twitter movement into a lasting community Angeline Dukes, who’s currently a student in the department of neurobiology and behavior at the University of California, Irvine, said it was “wonderful” to find a community of people who had not only succeeded, but overcome the [...]
<<Return to Black Thriving Initiative Leadership Education to Advance Diversity - African, Black, and Caribbean (LEAD-ABC)Established in 2019 Leadership Education to Advance Diversity–African, Black and Caribbean (LEAD-ABC) is a UCI School of Medicine mission-based program aimed at producing future physicians who are committed to addressing the health needs of African, Black and Caribbean communities in California, the United States, and [...]
<< Return to Black Thriving Initiative Exploring Anti-Black Racism Through Courses Several new courses are free and open to all UCI students, staff, and faculty, and each for completion in five weeks. Module 1 - Anti-Blackness in the United States: Black Protest Tradition Module 2 - Anti-Blackness in the United States: [...]