KEYWORD

underrepresented

First-generation students make up more than half of UCI’s class of 2017

Over 7,500 graduates will participate in commencement ceremonies this month

UCI joins alliance to expand opportunities for low-income students

American Talent Initiative aims to educate 50,000 of them at colleges with best graduation rates by 2025

A guiding light

Native American physicist blazes trail for others at UCI

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen to kick off UCI’s 2017 Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellows Series

Pulitzer Prize-winning author will read from his fiction and nonfiction works

George Farkas

Minority children underrepresented in special ed, UCI-Penn State study concludes

Contrary to popular belief, minority children are not overrepresented in special education classrooms and are actually less likely to be diagnosed with and treated for disabilities than white children with similar academic achievements, behaviors and economic resources, according to new research co-authored by George Farkas, professor of education at UC Irvine.

Ambition rewarded

Sage Scholars program