The 2024 recipients of the Chancellor’s Fellowship for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are being honored for their work going above and beyond to help students from underrepresented backgrounds succeed at UC Davis.
History graduate students at UC Davis are investigating past discrimination against the Black community in Sacramento during the 1950s and beyond. With direction from Professor Gregory Downs, and in partnership with the city of Sacramento and the Greater Sacramento Urban League, they seek to answer the question: What could reparations look like?
The UC Davis Womxn in Tech (WIT) group received an official campus designation and became a subgroup of the Status of Women at Davis Administrative Advisory Committee (SWADAAC).
The NSF Broadening Participation in Engineering Award includes nearly $400,000 in funding which will bring an executive leadership program for engineering graduate students called PROMISE Engineering Institute Mentoring Academy (PEI-MA). Vice chancellor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UC Davis Renetta Garrison Tull is principal investigator of this project that also includes involvement from faculty at Stanford University and University of Maryland.
Professor Maxine Craig, Ph.D. was recently appointed as new faculty director of the Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Social Science, Arts, and Humanities (CAMPSSAH). Craig is a professor in the sociology department and since 2020 has served that department as vice chair and director of the graduate program. Craig will take charge of a thriving and growing center on February 1, 2024 that now includes 24 Faculty Scholars from four colleges and schools and 12 departments across UC Davis.
Professor Jessica Bissett Perea (Dena'ina) was recently selected for the 2023 Irving Lowens Book Award for her 2021 book Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska. This award is bestowed by the Society for American Music and is awarded "to the book judged as the best in the field of American Music."
“Dialogues Across Difference,” a DEI initiative under the Office of Academic Diversity, advances faculty retention by addressing the negative impact of disruptive speech in learning environments. We are soliciting stories from UCD faculty and instructional staff about experiences with disruptive speech to explore solutions to this problem.
Meet the four participants for this year's CAMPSSAH Writing Community: Darnel Degand, Veronica Lerma, Ariana Valle and Kathleen Whiteley.
The faculty chosen are engaged in work that centers a critical, intersectional lens – particularly focusing on issues of race, gender, sexuality and class inequalities.
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.
2022-23 CAMPOS faculty scholar and medical anthropologist Adeola Oni-Orisan recently joined the department of Family and Community Medicine at UC Davis Health.