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, [...]
X Black Womxn Daily, AAPI Womxn in Leadership, and Academic & Professional Women at UCI would like to invite you to Best First Friday (BFF): Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities 1st Reading Group Friday, June 4 12:00 – 1:30pm RSVP HERE We hope that in an effort to build community, attendees prepare for the event [...]
About Amplify Womxn of UCI The Amplify series was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Erica Turley-De Villa and Tanya Zabalegui, two of our board members for A&PW envisioned a form of storytelling that would provide a space for womxn of UCI to be heard. As Erica and Tanya began sharing their idea with individuals across campus, the [...]
Phantom Africa: A Discussion with Brent Hayes Edwards Date: Thursday, May 20, 2021 Time: TBA Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Jazz Studies and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. He will present his recent [...]
Proposals are due from deans’ offices by 5 p.m. PT, on Thursday, April 15, at: https://inclusion.uci.edu/uci-black-thriving-initiative/bti-term-chairs/. Click here for more information.
Conversations for Change: On Improving the Racial Climate at UCI - Part Two featuring Pure Praxis The Staff Assembly Special Committee on Campus Culture is pleased to invite the UCI community to join us for Part II of the Conversations for Change: On Improving the Racial Climate at UCI series! Join us on ONE of the dates below [...]
Conversations for Change: On Improving the Racial Climate at UCI - Part Two featuring Pure Praxis The Staff Assembly Special Committee on Campus Culture is pleased to invite the UCI community to join us for Part II of the Conversations for Change: On Improving the Racial Climate at UCI series! Join us on ONE of the dates below [...]
Dear colleagues, The Inclusive Excellence Term Chair (IE Term Chair) Program is envisioned to transform UCI through research, teaching, and service aligned to the priorities of its Black Thriving Initiative. The IE Term Chair program leverages the research and capacities of the campus to broaden UCI's response to designated national imperatives. A maximum of one [...]
Conversations for Change: On Improving the Racial Climate at UCI - Part Two featuring Pure Praxis The Staff Assembly Special Committee on Campus Culture is pleased to invite the UCI community to join us for Part II of the Conversations for Change: On Improving the Racial Climate at UCI series! Join us on ONE of the dates below [...]
ArtsTalk’s inaugural series Leading the Arts Through a Pandemic will wrap up with two episodes in the Music department. For episode seven, Dean Barker speaks with Chair Stephen Tucker regarding his experience growing up in Jamaica, training as a conductor, Outreach work with Santa Ana High School, and the dynamic landscape of the Music department. [...]