Newsletter Archive

June 9, 2023
  • Celebrating PRIDE Month
  • UC Davis Celebrates Juneteenth
  • Spotlight on Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Professor and author of Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa
  • Honoring Community Achievement at Soaring to New Heights
  • Campus Community Book Project Selection Announced
  • DEI Annual Impact Report
May 18, 2023
  • ADVANCE Award Symposium
  • HSI Showcase Recordings
  • Spotlight on Diversity and Inclusion Educator and Specialist Christopher Nguyen Pheneger
  • Celebrating Dr. Vickie Gomez
May 4, 2023
  • DEI panelists at the APAHE conference
  • Healing Together
  • Honoring Mental Health Awareness
  • Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Haitian Heritage Month, and Jewish American Heritage Month
April 21, 2023
  • Thank you for helping us reach our first Give Day challenges!
  • Discover upcoming CAMPOS and CAMPSSAH colloquium
  • DEI at NADOHE conference
  • Celebrating Earth Day
April 6, 2023
  • A recap of the HSI Showcase and special note from HSI Director Lina Mendez
  • Give Day starts soon!
  • 2023 Chancellor Achievement Awards for Diversity and Community Recipients
March 23, 2023
  • UC Davis hosts the UC-wide HSI Showcase - TODAY!
  • Women's History Month DEI Champions
  • Jessica Perea selected for 2023 Irving Lowens Book Award
March 9, 2023
  • Hate-Free Together
  • Face to Face with Chancellor May and Vice Chancellor Tull
  • Honoring Neurodiversity and Bringing Awareness to Developmental Disabilities
  • New Aggie Parents Live Facebook Panel Wins EduAD Award!
  • Anticipating the HSI Showcase
  • 2022-23 Chancellor’s Fellows Announced
February 23, 2023
  • Principles of Community Week
  • Campus Community Book Project: Zach Norris in Davis
  • World Café Community Conversation: Examining Safety and Justice
  • DEI Announces Two New Associate Vice Chancellors
  • Celebrating Black History
February 9, 2023
  • Celebrating Black History
  • Lifting Voices with Denisha "Coco Blossom" Bland and SAYS
  • Elevating Youth with New K-16 Collaborative Partnership
  • DEI Spotlight on Cameron Clerkley
  • Navigating Disruptive Speech in the Classroom
  • Highlighting the Work of Zach Norris, Campus Community Book Project Author
  • Supporting our Communities
January 26, 2023
  • Honoring Black History and the History of UCD Department of African American and African Studies
  • January Mixer at Aggie Square
  • DEI Spotlight On: Adeola Oni-Orisan
  • UC Policy on Abusive Conduct in the Workplace
  • Youth Protection Program
  • Opening for Mike Henderson's solo exhibit at the Manetti Shrem Museum
  • Celebrating Lunar New Year
January 12, 2023
  • Celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 
  • UC. Davis Law School Dean Kevin R. Johnson receives diversity award
  • Introducing the UC Davis Health Truth and Racial Healing Transformation Center
  • Sharing Information and Resources on Iran
  • Announcing the 2023 CAMPSSAH writing community participants
December 15, 2022
  • Special Edition: Winter Break Wellness Issue. 
  • See what DEI staff do for self-care over the stress of these months
  • Celebrate with Inclusiveness
  • Apply for the Redwood SEED Scholars Program
December 2, 2022
  • Vice Chancellor Tull in South Africa at the WEEF Conference
  • Addressing Violence Against LGBTQIA People
  • Virtual Coffee Hour: K12 Collaborative UCD Updates
November 17, 2022
  • Best Practices for Celebrating the Holidays with Inclusiveness
  • 2022 CAMPOS and CAMPSSAH Faculty Scholars Induction Ceremony
  • Honoring Transgender Awareness Month and Day of Remembrance
November 3, 2022
  • Dr. Hendry Ton is recognized by the Sac Bee as an AAPI Change Maker
  • UC Davis School of Medicine receives the national HEED Award for Excellence in Diversity
  • UCD faculty and students attend the 2022 SACNAS Conference
  • IDEA releases the 2022 COVID DIARIES Report
October 20, 2022
  • Faculty Diversity "100 Hires" Initiative Announced
  • UC Davis named in Top 100 Schools for Hispanics
  • Aggies attend the 2022 HACU Conference
  • Chancellor May and Vice Chancellor Tull at the 1300 Campaign 3-Year Celebration
  • Dr. Charlene Green introduced as Assistant Dean for Admissions, Outreach and Diversity
October 6, 2022
  • Zoila Mendoza appointed 22023 CAMPSSAH Interim Faculty Director
  • Implementing the DEI Strategic Vision
  • 22-23 CAMPSSAH and CAMPOS Faculty Scholars Announced
September 22, 2022
  • Announcing our HSI Initiative: AVANZA
  • Addressing Antisemitism
  • 2022 ADVANCE Scholar Award Recipients
 
June 2, 2022
  • Tribute to Dr. Lorena Oropeza and Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste
  • P.L.A.C.E with CAMPSSAH Award Winners
  • Cesar Chavez Youth Leadership Conference and Celebration
May 19, 2022
  • 2022 ADVANCE Award Symposium–Inclusivity, Equity, and Ethics in Research and Data Science
  • UC Davis Book Project: 2021-2022 Event Recordings Available
  • Understanding the Impact of Structural Racism on Mental Health
May 5, 2022
  • Chancellor's Achievement Awards for Diversity and Community
  • P.L.A.C.E with CAMPSSAH Manuscript Workshop
  • World Health Day (Pt. 2) - Food as Medicine
April 21, 2022
  • Scholar of the Quarter - Jacob Hibel
  • Upcoming Learning and Development Classes
  • National Day of Silence & LGBTQIA+ Community Support
April 7, 2022
  • New Directors for Asian Pacific Islander Retention Initiatives and Chicanx/Latinx Retention Initiative
  • Historians Bring Women’s Stories to National Parks of the Pacific, West
  • Congratulations to Megan Macklin and Eric Sanchez
  • Mari Knuth-Bouracee, New Director for Clinical Services Culture, Climate and Community Engagement
March 24, 2022
  • Finding Common Ground at the Student Farm
  • Campus Community Book Project Author's Visit
  • Student-run health clinics seek donations to provide free care to underserved communities
March 10, 2022
  • Ukrainian Students, Professionals and Human Rights Defenders: Use UC Davis Backpack
  • Campus Community Book Project Author's Visit
  • Vulnerable groups receive COVID-19 shots from UC Davis Health, thanks to federal grant
February 24, 2022
  • P.L.A.C.E. with CAMPSSAH Award Opportunities
  • Celebrating the Principles of Community
  • UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education’s “The Inclusive Leader”
February 10, 2022
  • UC Davis Latinx Staff and Faculty Association Crowdfunding to Support Staff Upward Career Mobility
  • Principles of Community Week Begins February 22
  • Governor Names Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola to California Health and Wellness Panel
January 27, 2022
  • P.L.A.C.E. with CAMPSSAH Grant Opportunities Now Available
  • UC Davis Book Project: Learning Resources
  • Deans’ 2021-2022 Award for Excellence
January 13, 2022
  • DEI and Healthy Davis/Yolo Together Initiative Reaches Parents
  • P.L.A.C.E. with CAMPSSAH Award Announcements
  • Ton recognized by the LA Times for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts
December 16, 2021
  • CAMPOS Winter Research Colloquiums
  • Recruiting for Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Education Program
  • Institute for Diversity, Equity and Advancement Hiring a Program Analyst
December 2, 2021
  • CAMPOS Faculty Scholar Kudos
  • DEITalk – A Video Podcast Series from OCCR
  • Leadership message from Ceasor Dennis: “Employee Resource Groups build communities of belonging”
November 18, 2021
  • Police Accountability Board Annual Report
  • Holiday and End-of-Year Guidance and Best Practices
  • DEI Partners with eScholarship to Publish Mission-Relevant Content
November 4, 2021
  • Representing UC Davis at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) 35th Annual Virtual Conference 
  • Thank you to all our ERGs for your commitment and service to our campus community
  • School of Medicine Leads Effort to Vaccinate Vulnerable People Who Lack Access to Care
October 21, 2021
  • Professors Materson and Decker Selected to Pilot Workplace Climate Action Group
  • Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity and Community Call for Nominations
  • Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Health Equity Leader, Receives Two National Awards for Reducing Latino Health Disparities
October 7, 2021
  • Dialogues Across Difference: Solutions to Disruptive Speech in the Learning Environment
  • Introducing DEITalk – A Video Podcast Series from the Office of Campus Community Relations
  • DiversABILITY and Inclusion
September 23, 2021
  • Introducing Lina Mendez Our New HSI Director!
  • UC Davis Book Project: Announcing Our 2021-2022 Program
  • Medical care for Team USA women's gymnastics at Tokyo Olympics led by UC Davis Health doctor
September 9, 2021
  • The Aggie Info and Help Line
  • CAMPOS and CAMPSSAH Welcome Eight New Faculty Scholars for 2021-22
  • 2021-2022 Book Project Selection: How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  • Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona selected as HACU Leadership Academy Fellow
July 22, 2021
  • Rahim Reed Retires From the Community He Helped Build
  • Call for Nominations: Asia Pacific Women in Leadership (APWiL) Mentoring Program
  • Marie Heffern Receives NSF CAREER Award
  • Call for Nominations: 2021-2022 Diversity Awareness Workshops
  • Recruiting for a Director of Medical Center and Clinical Services Culture, Climate & Community Engagement
July 8, 2021
  • AEVC Rahim Reed Retirement
  • 2021 Hibbard Williams Extraordinary Achievement Award Goes to Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola
  • UC Davis Names New Dean to the College of Letters and Science
  • 2021 ADVANCE Scholar Award Recipients 
  • Recruiting for a Director of Medical Center and Clinical Services Culture, Climate & Community Engagement
June 24, 2021
  • UC Davis is Recruiting for a Hispanic Serving Institution Director
  • ‘A Monumental Step’ in Reclaiming a California Indigenous Language
  • P.L.A.C.E. with CAMPSSAH Announces Summer Writing Retreat Award Recipients
June 10, 2021
  • Walter Robinson Week of Random Acts of Kindness & Intentional Acts of Equity
  • Forbes Best Employer for Diversity 2021
  • Campus Investment in Student Health and Wellness
  • Marie Heffern, CAMPOS Faculty Scholar, Wins 2022 Paul Saltman Young Investigator Award
  • Scholar of the Quarter | Spring 2021
May 27, 2021
  • Applications for the brand-new UC Davis Redwood SEED (Supported Education to Elevate Diversity) Scholars Program are now open!
  • Two UC Davis Professors Selected for the UC Women's Initiative for Professional Development
  • Chancellor's Achievement Awards Recipients
  • HEDI Selected to Participate in 2021 Institute on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Centers
May 13, 2021
  • In Memoriam: Cruz Reynoso, UC Davis and California Icon
  • Honoring Tanya Whitlow
  • Police Accountability Board Announces Spring 2021 Public Meeting & Launch of Database
  • HEDI Blog is now live!
April 29, 2021
  • May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month
  • May is Pride Month
  • Academic Diversity's New Associate Vice Chancellor
  • Call for Applications for 2021-22 Administrative Advisory Committees
April 15, 2021
  • UC Women's Initiative for Professional Development (UCWI)
  • ADVANCE Scholar Award | Call for Nominations
  • Chancellor's Achievement Awards for Diversity and Community Ceremony 
  • Call for Letters of Interest: Supporting Education Excellence in Diversity (SEED) Program
April 1, 2021
  • April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
  • CAMPOS Faculty Scholars in the News
  • P.L.A.C.E. with CAMPSSAH Scholar of the Quarter (Spring) Call for Nominations
  • Introducing the new Senior Director of Institutional Culture, Climate and Community Engagement
March 18, 2021
  • CAMPOS Faculty Awarded “Grants for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals”
  • P.L.A.C.E. with CAMPSSAH Scholar of the Quarter
  • Author Ellen Forney Brings Campus Community Book Project to Virtual Stage 
  • Latino vaccination initiative boosted by UC Davis Health partnership
March 4, 2021
  • Caroline Cabias Receives the 2021 CAAA Alumni Aggie Service Award
  • Faculty Satisfaction Survey Reports (COACHE)
  • CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Soaring to New Heights Awards 2021 
  • Be Heard! HEDI Blog in Development – Accepting Submissions for Future Posts
February 18, 2021
  • UC Davis School of Law Tribal Justice Seminar Series 
  • CAMPSSAH Faculty Scholar Branwen Okpako Selected as 2020-21 Chancellor Fellow
  • CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Soaring to New Heights Awards 2021 
  • Partnership with Opening Doors, Inc. One Example of Anchor Institution Mission in Action
February 4, 2021
  • The Free People of Color Lecture Series
  • Welcome to our New Education Specialist Christopher Nguyen Pheneger
  • Members in the CAMPOS and ADVANCE Community Contributing to the UCD Efforts Fighting COVID
January 21, 2021
  • “Picture a Scientist” Film Viewing and Panel Discussion
  • Jann Murray-García Receives C.A. Covell Award, City of Davis Top Citizen Award
  • Ruth Shim Becomes School of Medicine Associate Dean for Diverse and Inclusive Education
  • Award and Grant Opportunities from P.L.A.C.E. with CAMPSSAH
January 7, 2021
  • Download the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Year-End Report
  • “Black California surgeon at UC Davis Health ‘walks the walk’ on virus vaccine”
  • UC Davis Hispanic Serving Institution Implementation Taskforce Begins Work
December 10, 2020
  • YEAR-END REPORT HIGHLIGHT: “Community Building, Squared”
  • YEAR-END REPORT HIGHLIGHT: “CAMPSSAH Inaugural Cohort”
  • YEAR-END REPORT HIGHLIGHT: “Police Reform and Safety”
November 12, 2020
  • Center for Educational Effectiveness, “Just-in-Time Teaching: Anti-Racism Series”
  • Call for Nominations Chancellor's Achievement Awards for Diversity and Community
  • Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola to serve on the California COVID-19 Vaccine Drafting Guidelines Workgroup
  • PLACE and FRIENDS Advancing Faculty Diversity Grants Proceed
October 29, 2020
  • Claudia Rankine Reading and Lecture, Just Us: An American Conversation
  • Anchor Institution Mission for Community Health Website Launch
  • Representing UC Davis at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) 34th Annual Virtual Conference
October 15, 2020
  • Campus Community Book Project Mental Health Resources Webpage
  • The annual Improving OUTcomes LGBTQ+ Conference goes virtual!
  • University of California-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative (UC-HSI DDI)
October 1, 2020
  • Mexican Government Honors Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola with Ohtli Award
  • Unearthing Indigenous Land Dispossession in the Founding of the University of California
  • Campus Community Book Project – Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney
September 17, 2020
  • Disability Awareness Symposium and Accessibility Technology Fair
  • 100 Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists in America
  • Police Accountability Board Presentation
September 3, 2020
  • Chancellor’s Colloquium: ‘Race, Racism, Rebellion in a Pandemic’
  • Diversity in Graduate Medical Education Virtual Residency Open House
  • Theanne Griffith Reads from Her "The Magnificent Makers"
August 20, 2020
  • “Restoring Justice: Transforming Education at UC Davis” | August 26, 11:00AM
  • UC Davis Becomes Charter member of SEA Change Initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Meet Your 2020-2021 Latinx Staff & Faculty Association Executive Board
  • 2020-2021 CAMPSSAH Faculty Scholars Announced
August 6, 2020
  • Educational opportunities to enrich our awareness and knowledge about racism 
  • 2020-2021 CAMPOS Faculty Scholars Announced
  • Professors Leveraging a Community of Engagement (PLACE) with CAMPSSAH Awarded UCOP Advancing Faculty Diversity, Improved Climate and Retention 2020-2022 Grant
July 23, 2020
  • Big Boost in Chicanx/Latinx Students Admitted to UC Davis
  • Film Screening: Race - The Power of an Illusion
  • UC Davis Nursing School Names New Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Dean
  • 2020 ADVANCE Scholar Award Recipients Named
July 9, 2020
  • CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2021-2022 CAMPUS COMMUNITY BOOK PROJECT (CCBP)
  • HOSPITAL EARNS JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR 2ND YEAR
  • FACULTY PARENT SUPPORT GROUP: SPECIAL SUMMER ASSISTANCE
June 25, 2020
  • Linda Mijangos Retires; Raquel Aldana Returns to Law School Faculty
  • Call For Nominations: 2021-2022 Campus Community Book Project (Ccbp)
  • Maricel Lumaquin of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing - 2020 CUCSA Kevin McCauley Memorial Outstanding Staff Award Recipient
  • Update On Progress Toward Achieving HSI Designation
June 11, 2020
  • UC Davis Receives A Uc-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative Grant
  • 2020 Soaring To New Heights Diversity And Principles Of Community Achievement Award Recipients
  • Student-Run Clinic Continues Offering Care During The Pandemic
May 28, 2020
  • UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW’S “FIRST GENERATION ADVOCATES” GRADUATE
  • SMUD RELEASES MAPPING TOOL THAT IDENTIFIES AREAS IN NEED BASED UPON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS 
  • ADDRESSING FOOD INSECURITY
May 14, 2020
  • Affirming the Importance of Advancing Faculty Diversity in a Time of Pandemic
  • Embracing Our Aggie Diversity
  • Stand with Our Asian American Community
  • Celebrating UC Davis’ Remarkable Women
April 30, 2020
  • Adrienne Lawson Receives Community Conscience Award
  • HACU's 25th Annual Capitol Forum a Success with Aggies in the Virtual Room
  • 2021-2022 Campus Community Book Project Topic
April 16, 2020
  • Chicanx/Latinx Advisory Council
  • Anti-Bullying Training on Zoom
April 2, 2020
  • Coping as a Community: COVID-19 Initiating Compassion, Giving, and Hope
  • DEI Leadership Updates
  • Academic Senate DEI Resolutions
March 19, 2020
  • COVID-19 – How are you coping? 
  • DEI Leadership Updates 
  • Temporary Suspension of Academic Diversity Programming
  • AIM For Community Health Initiative