Mikael Villalobos, Ed.D., serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Campus and Community Relations.  In his role, Dr. Villalobos leads important and long-standing campus-wide climate and community engagement initiatives that operationalize the UC Davis Principles of Community, including the UC Davis Police Accountability Board, the community book project, and campus’s professional development focusing on workplace belonging.  These community and educational engagement initiatives are hallmark programs and recognized across the system for their robustness and scope, reaching faculty, students and staff at both ends of the Causeway, and extending to the communities beyond UC Davis and UC Davis Health.  He also led the development of the institutionalization of the anti-bullying training, another example of campus best practice in compliance aligned with state laws and campus policies. In 2016, the Chancellor recognized Mikael’s leadership in the success of these programs with the Chancellor’s Staff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Award.  

Frequently called upon by academic and administrative departments and units regarding workplace climate issues, Dr. Villalobos actively partners with academic and administrative departments in implementing the UC Davis Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Vision by working with campus leaders in identifying meaningful ways to integrate the vision’s goals that inform practice and policy-making.  He is a member of the campus’ Discrimination and Harassment Case Management Team that reviews discrimination and harassment complaints and counsels groups in identifying resolutions to conflicts and breaches in climate.

A UC Davis alumnus (BA/AB; Ed.D.), he has dedicated the entirety of his career at UC Davis.  Prior to joining the Office of Campus and Community Relations in 2008, he served the Division of Student Affairs as a Regional Outreach Coordinator, Assistant Director and later Educational Partnership Manager with the Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP). Throughout his career, his commitment to the UC Davis Principles of Community has been recognized by the Office of the Chancellor, having been the recipient of the Diversity and Principles of Community Achievement Award multiple times.