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Office of Inclusive Excellence invites the UCI community to hear updates about inclusive excellence action plans for the campus, and to dialogue on key issues for student, postdoctoral scholar, faculty, staff, and community success. Please join us to enjoy in this interactive dialogue and to help shape priorities to support diversity, equity, inclusion, and free speech at UCI.
2023 Forum - “Compelling Work for Meeting UCI Comunity Needs”
Thursday, January 12, 2023
UCI Student Center Pacific Ballrooms
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Audience: Undergraduates, Graduates, PostDocs, Faculty, Staff and Community
Event’s Agenda
11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Check In/ Lunch
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Panel Presentation
12:45 p.m.-1:00pm Closing and Call to Action – Interim Vice Chancellor Rodrigo Lazo
Reports and Readings of Interest
- UCI Task force to Review NASEM Recommendations – Report to the Chancellor
- Toward a More Inclusive Campus for the Transgender, Intersex, and Gender Nonconforming Community
- Moving Past the Model Minority Myth: UCI as an Asian and Pacific Islander Thriving Institution
- Minority Serving Institutions – America’s Underutilized Resource for Strengthening the STEM Workforce (2018)
- OIE Higher Ground report
- OIE UCI as a Hispanic-Thriving Campus report
- CEIUS Best Practices for Supporting Students in Immigration Crisis
- Task Force report on Ensuring Positive Climate for the Campus’ Black Community
- CORO Bridging to 2025 by Enhancing Current Staff Hiring and Retention
- 2018 Undocumented Report
Online Resourcs
- COVID-19
- AAAS SEA Change
- OIE
- Action Plan
- Black Thriving Initiative
- DECADE Mentors
- Equity Advisors
- Inclusive Excellence Certificate Program
- UCI Climate Survey 2021
- UCI Counseling Center
- Project Implicit – Take an Implicit Association Test
Campus Resources
- Academic Personnel
- ADVANCE Program
- AGS UCI
- ASUCI
- Division of Career Pathways
- Division of Student Affairs
- Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
- Graduate Division
- Human Resources
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine project webpage on Sexual Harassment in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- Office of Academic Personnel
- Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity
- Office of Institutional Research
- Program in Public Health
- Wellness, Health, and Counseling Services
- UCI Strategic Plan
This meeting will be held in person at UCI Student Center Pacific Ballrooms.
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Thank you for attending the forum! Please see the presentation slides below.
Jan. 12 Inclusive Excellence Forum Presentations
Douglas Haynes – Action Plan Update: https://inclusion.uci.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/JAN-12-IE-FORUM-slides-D-Haynes.pdf
Shirley Malcom – Are We There Yet? Toward Silver and Gold: MALCOM – SEAChange UCI Inclusive Excellence 2022-final+graphs
Michael Yassa – Implicit Bias Presentation: Yassa_InclusiveExcellenceForum
Project Implicit’s Implicit Association Test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
2022 Forum - “A Community Creating a SEA Change”
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Audience: Undergraduates, Graduates, PostDocs, Faculty, Staff and Community
Event’s Agenda
10:55 a.m. Live Access to Meeting
11:00 a.m. Welcome from Vice Chancellor Douglas Haynes
11:15 a.m. Keynote Presentation
Shirley Malcom, senior advisor and director of STEM Equity Achievement (SEA) Change, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Title of presentation – Are We There Yet? Professing Toward Silver and Gold
12:00 p.m. Implicit Bias Presentation
Michael Yassa, associate dean and professor, School of Biological Sciences, and direct UCI Brain Initiative and Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
12:45 p.m. Closing and Call to Action – Vice Chancellor Douglas Haynes
Reports and Readings of Interest
- UCI Task force to Review NASEM Recommendations – Report to the Chancellor
- Toward a More Inclusive Campus for the Transgender, Intersex, and Gender Nonconforming Community
- Moving Past the Model Minority Myth: UCI as an Asian and Pacific Islander Thriving Institution
- Minority Serving Institutions – America’s Underutilized Resource for Strengthening the STEM Workforce (2018)
- OIE Higher Ground report
- OIE UCI as a Hispanic-Thriving Campus report
- CEIUS Best Practices for Supporting Students in Immigration Crisis
- Task Force report on Ensuring Positive Climate for the Campus’ Black Community
- CORO Bridging to 2025 by Enhancing Current Staff Hiring and Retention
- 2018 Undocumented Report
Online Resourcs
- COVID-19
- AAAS SEA Change
- OIE
- Action Plan
- Black Thriving Initiative
- DECADE Mentors
- Equity Advisors
- Inclusive Excellence Certificate Program
- UCI Climate Survey 2021
- UCI Counseling Center
- Project Implicit – Take an Implicit Association Test
Campus Resources
- Academic Personnel
- ADVANCE Program
- AGS UCI
- ASUCI
- Division of Career Pathways
- Division of Student Affairs
- Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
- Graduate Division
- Human Resources
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine project webpage on Sexual Harassment in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- Office of Academic Personnel
- Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity
- Office of Institutional Research
- Program in Public Health
- Wellness, Health, and Counseling Services
- UCI Strategic Plan
Thursday, February 4, 2021
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Audience: Undergraduates, Graduates, PostDocs, Faculty, Staff and Community from ANY Zoom account
Event's Agenda
10:55 a.m. Live Access to Meeting
11:00 a.m. Welcome from Vice Chancellor Douglas Haynes
11:10 a.m. Keynote Presenter
Shirley Malcom, senior advisor and director of STEM Equity Achievement (SEA) Change, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Title of presentation - SEA Change: Building a Thriving Community
11:45 a.m. A Focus on Wellness
Bernadette Boden-Albala, dean, Program in Public Health
12:10 p.m. A Community Dialogue on Thriving
Ramona Agrela, associate chancellor and chief human resources executive, Human Resources
Willie Banks, vice chancellor for the Division of Student Affairs
Diane O'Dowd, vice chancellor for the Office of Academic Personnel and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences
Marcelle Hayashida, associate vice chancellor of Wellness, Health and Community Services
Rodrigo Lazo, associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Graduate Division and professor of English in the School of Humanities
Brian Sato, associate dean in the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation and professor of teaching in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences
12:35 p.m. Reflections
Michelle Mallari, president of ASUCI
Connor Strobel, president of AGS
12:45 p.m. Call to Action
Dean Song Richardson, School of Law
Reports and Readings of Interest
- Minority Serving Institutions - America's Underutilized Resource for Strengthening the STEM Workforce (2018)
- OIE Higher Ground report
- OIE UCI as a Hispanic-Thriving Campus report
- CEIUS Best Practices for Supporting Students in Immigration Crisis
- Task Force report on Ensuring Positive Climate for the Campus’ Black Community
- CORO Bridging to 2025 by Enhancing Current Staff Hiring and Retention
- 2018 Undocumented Report
Online Resources
- COVID-19
- AAAS SEA Change
- OIE
- Action Plan
- Black Thriving Initiative
- DECADE Mentors
- Equity Advisors
- Inclusive Excellence Certificate Program
- UCI Climate Survey 2021
- UCI Counseling Center
Campus Resources
- Academic Personnel
- ADVANCE Program
- AGS UCI
- ASUCI
- Division of Career Pathways
- Division of Student Affairs
- Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
- Graduate Division
- Human Resources
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine project webpage on Sexual Harassment in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- Office of Academic Personnel
- Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity
- Office of Institutional Research
- Program in Public Health
- Wellness, Health, and Counseling Services
- UCI Strategic Plan