inclusion

Third-year student who grew up feeling like an outsider works to foster inclusion through UCI community outreach program

UCI’s Office of Inclusive Excellence, under its Confronting Extremism initiative, has issued a call for proposals to promote understanding about equity in the age of COVID-19. In addition to bringing to light some of the best qualities of ingenuity and empathy in individuals, the worldwide coronavirus crisis has exposed and exacerbated inequities in society. In […]

In the latest UCI Podcast, Douglas Haynes, vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, shares a message with the UCI community about inclusivity during challenging times. The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus, now called COVID-19, a global health emergency. This pandemic has far-reaching effects on physical as well as mental health. Fear, stress […]

UCI faculty create massive open online courses to counter extremism

Nearly 100 educators are welcomed to campus for 2019-20 academic year

A Q&A with UCI’s chief diversity officer

EVENT: Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, will speak at UCI on “The State of Hate” as part of the campus’s Confronting Extremism Initiative. WHEN/WHERE: 6-7:30 p.m. Monday, May 6, in the Pacific Ballroom at the UCI Student Center (bldg. 113, grid D5 on campus map: https://www.parking.uci.edu/maps/documents/UCI-CampusCore_2018.pdf) INFORMATION: The event is free […]

Forbes has named UCI one of the best large employers in the U.S. The campus rated No. 40 overall and No. 4 among educational institutes. This comes on the heels of a January Forbes ranking, in which UCI rated the seventh best for employee diversity – the second-highest ranking for both a California employer and […]

Local high school students participating in UCI’s new Diversity, Inclusion & Racial Healing Ambassador Program are countering stereotypes

University is one of 15 tapped for inaugural institutional change cohort