News
Below you'll find our post archive. These results will come in the forms of Pages, Posts, and Events. Also 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.
Remarks: UCI Orlando Strong Vigil
Vice Provost for Academic Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Noon June 15, 2016 UCI Flagpole On behalf of Chancellor Gillman, I am honored and humbled to join you at this Orlando Strong vigil. This vigil commemorates a traumatic human rights disaster directed at the LGBT community that took place early Sunday morning on 12 June 2016 in Orlando, Florida at the Pulse night club. In that club, there were many people who were someone’s friend and lover, partner and spouse, son and daughter, aunt and uncle. Many represented the diverse Latino community. They all reflected the rich diversity of the LGBT…
Official Launch of New Dreamers Website
Student Affairs is proud to announce the official launch of our new and improved Dreamers Website http://dreamers.uci.edu/ This site will serve as an information hub for programs, services, and resources for students who identify as AB540, Dreamers, and Undocumented. The site is now interactive, provides access to additional resources, and contains integrated social media buttons for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to foster improved communication with users. We will be continually updating our content with helpful information, articles, blogs, newsletters, announcements and student successes in the News Archive section. We would like to thank our amazing students for their input and…
Students Supporting Israel Film Screening
Climate Monitor: Respecting the Lines of Civility Date May 18, 2016 Event Students Supporting Israel Film Screening Action Response from Chancellor Howard Gillman (included below) Dear Anteaters: Last night, an incident occurred on campus that we believe crossed the line of civility, prompting me to re-emphasize our position on free speech, safety and mutual respect. The incident centered on a film-viewing event sponsored by Students Supporting Israel. A group of protesters reportedly disrupted the event, blocking exit paths. Participants feared for their safety, calling on our police force for assistance. While this university will protect freedom of speech, that right is not…
Inclusion at UCI
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 to come to UCI to learn and teach and to explore and create in an environment that is supportive and affirmative….
May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
Dear Colleagues, May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. At UCI, we acknowledge the contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in advancing our mission as a public research university proudly serving the residents of Orange County and the state of California. At the center of this mission is the School of Humanities’ Department of Asian American Studies. Established in 2002, it’s one of four such departments in the University of California system. The faculty, who are drawn from the arts, humanities, social ecology and social sciences, mount an…
Professor Roxane Silver appointed Associate Director of the UCI ADVANCE Program
Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Roxane Silver as Associate Director of the UCI ADVANCE Program in the Office of Inclusive Excellence, effective April 1, 2016. In this role, Dr. Silver will be principally responsible for directing the Diverse Educational Community and Doctoral Experience (DECADE) Faculty Mentors Program. Originally funded by a US Department of Education grant to Graduate Division, the purpose of DECADE is to advance inclusive excellence in graduate education. Through peer-to-peer engagement, faculty DECADE mentors play a critical role in broadening participation, promoting a positive climate, and supporting degree completion. Indeed, their…
Climate Monitor: Social Media and Free Speech
Date March 9, 2016 Event Hateful social media from a student-elected leader Action Response from Thomas A. Parham, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs (included below) While it is neither appropriate nor possible to speak out every time a member of our community posts a message in social media that is inconsistent with our principles of community, the matter is different when an elected leader of our student government engages in hateful forms of expression.In his yearly campus message on “Free Speech in our Scholarly Community” Chancellor Gillman emphasizes the importance of supporting each other “when members of our community are subject to hateful,…
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,…
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…