CAMPOS and CAMPSSAH Induct 2022 Faculty Scholars

On November 4, members and supporters of CAMPOS and CAMPSSAH gathered in person at the Manetti Shrem Museum to welcome the two new cohorts of faculty scholars. Organized by the Office of Academic Diversity, the Induction Ceremony is an important time to foster a community among faculty and with the campus. The Office of Academic Diversity works to strengthen and diversify the academic pipeline at UC Davis. It develops programming to advance the recruitment, retention, and promotion of faculty members whose research, teaching, and service advances multicultural perspectives in all fields of studies.

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Asian American Cowboys and Native Erasure

By Dr. Beenash JafriIn
Reprinted from Reappropriate: Asian American feminism, politics, and pop culture (September 22, 2022)

Asian exclusion from US history, politics and culture is inextricably bound up with the seizure and transformation of Native lands. The absence of Asian solidarity with Native peoples is not just an ethical failure, but it stands in the way of dismantling ongoing racism, colonialism and xenophobia in this country.

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Welcome New CAMPSSAH Faculty Director and Faculty Scholars

The Office of Academic Diversity, a unit of the Vice Chancellor’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, is happy to announce the appointment of a new faculty director of the Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Social Science, Arts, and Humanities (CAMPSSAH) and the selection of the 2022-2023 cohort of faculty scholars.

FOCUS

Faculty of California United in Scholarship–FOCUS

FOCUS is a University of California, Office of President Advancing Faculty Diversity Climate and Retention grant award to UC Davis. This grant seeks to equip professors overburdened with the "invisible labor" of service with visible research through engagement with writing experts for STEM and non-STEM faculty alike.