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⭐️ Presented by the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education
UC Davis is attending NCORE 2024!
The 2024 National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education, "focuses on the complex task of creating and sustaining comprehensive institutional change. This change work is designed to improve racial and ethnic relations and their intersections with other issues and groups on campus. The conference speakers and sessions offer strategies for expanding educational access and success for diverse, traditionally underrepresented populations."
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Coalition Building and Liberation for POC Adoptees & Those Who Hold Multiracial Identities
(Pre-conference) Tuesday, May 28 | 8:00 am-4:00 pm | Meeting Room 307 A & B
This interactive pre-conference is intended to be a joyful and brave space for those who identify as Transracial/People of Color Adoptees (People of Color who are adopted across racial groups) and those who hold Multiracial identities (those who identify with two or more racial groups). Grounded in self reflective practice, the art of storytelling, and theory, this pre-conference will center our stories and collective experiences moving us towards achieving collective liberation.
Presenter: Michelle Bagshaw, Sara Lilien Blair-Medeiros, Lisa Delacruz Combs, JaeRan Kim , Beth Yu Simpson
Is the University Responsible for Building a Native/Tribal Relationship?
Wednesday, May 29 | 10:00-11:30 am | Meeting Room 302 B
This session will address the need for higher education to build intentional and meaningful relationships with tribal and Hawai'ian communities. We will discuss various forms of what a relationship can take; what are indigenous ways of knowing positive relationship building in Hawaiʻi; relationship building at a California community college & a University of California institution.
Presenters: Michelle A Villegas Frazier, Ricardo Torres, Frankie Medrano, Willy Kauai, Nalani Balutsk
Engage, Equip, Empower, Elevate: Operationalizing DEI in Challenging Times
Wednesday, May 29 | 1:00-2:15 pm | Mtg Rm 311
To demonstrate their value to the institution and articulate campus-wide progress on DEI issues, UC Davis has stayed focused on their Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Vision, issued in 2017. DEI leaders have further emphasized their role as a loud and visible voice for advancing this vision by developing four pillars: "Engage, Equip, Empower, and Elevate." In this session, members of UC Davis DEI leadership will present four case studies that demonstrate how the division is taking action.
Presenters: Renetta Garrison Tull, Laura Cerruti, Ebony E. Lewis, RobbieLyn Tesnado, Hendry Ton, Luis Carvajal-Carmona, Mikael Villalobos
Indigenizing UC Davis: Reimagining a Land Grant University
Thursday, May 30 | 1:00-2:15 pm | Mtg Rm 308B
Reimagining the Land-Grant University is working to address the harmful origins of our public university. In this session, presenters will address how the campus is facing the challenge of fully reckoning with and growing from its land-grant history to ensure we are advancing equity, creating opportunity for Native American students, and fulfilling the promise to have a profound positive public impact on our world through teaching, research, and service.
Presenters: Michelle A Villegas Frazier, Megon Noble
Creating Home Away from Home: Native American Living Learning Communities in Higher Education
Friday, May 31 | 10:00-11:30 am | Mtg Rm 308A
This session will discuss creating and supporting Living Learning Programs (LLPs) for Native American students. The session presenters will focus on LLPs within their home communities and the ways community building, programming, and prioritizing a Native centered approach has impact on student retention and persistence.
Presenters: John Little, Michelle Villegas-Frazier, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw
Supporting AandPI Students at UC Davis
Saturday, June 1 | 1:00-2:15 pm | Mtg Rm 317B
As part of UC Davis’ efforts to promote greater understanding and service of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander students, this panel session will discuss institutional efforts to shift from campus-ready to student-ready. As a designated research-intensive (R1) AANAPISI, panelists will discuss the Pledge to Our Keiki by way of effective programs and initiatives that examine student success, foster meaningful partnerships, and advance student retention for these diasporas.
Presenters: Kat Parpana, Eric Sanchez, Mikael Villalobos, Hendry Ton, and Susette Min
Reimagining Circle Practices to Address Colonial Co-opting and Cultural Exceptionalism of Healing
Saturday, June 1 | 1:00-2:15 pm | Mtg Rm 325A
Are you co-opting Indigenous circle practices in your restorative justice practice on campus? Through this workshop, participants will be guided through the true roots of restorative justice and the Indigenous communities from which these practices are often drawn from. Through an interactive and dialogic practice, participants will then have the opportunity to understand what true cultural healing can look like from a restorative paradigm that honors and uplifts this practice.
Presenters: Jamal Epperson, Paul David Terry, Michiko Kealoha
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