UC to continue to champion diverse student body despite rejection of Proposition 16
UC Office of the President
November 4, 2020
The University of California is disappointed that Proposition 16, the state ballot measure and constitutional amendment that would have repealed Proposition 209, did not pass in this election. Proposition 16 would have helped reverse the detrimental and far-reaching initiative that banned the consideration of race, ethnicity and gender in admissions across public higher education, and other arenas, almost a quarter-century ago.
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UC Merced welcomes Juan Sánchez Muñoz as fourth chancellor
UC Merced
July 9, 2020
The new chancellor will guide the campus in ascending to new heights as a research university.
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UC Regents declare their support for an end to race-blind admissions
UC Newsroom
June 25, 2020
UC leaders champion effort to roll back a law they say has long hindered the university's mission of access.
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Relief and joy abound: DACA recipients react to the Supreme Court victory
UC Newsroom
June 19, 2020
For thousands of UC DACA students, yesterday was the news they have been daring to hope for: that they can continue their educations, remain in their communities and keep contributing in their fields, from health care to education.
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UC advances equality, inclusion by implementing nonbinary gender identification
November 17, 2020
The University of California announced today (Nov. 17) that it has adopted systemwide gender identity and lived name options for UC-issued documents and information systems. UC’s new Presidential Policy on Gender Recognition and Lived Names, which acknowledges gender identities other than man and woman, is another milepost in the University’s commitment to equity and inclusion for all.
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UC to continue to champion diverse student body despite rejection of Proposition 16
November 4, 2020
The University of California is disappointed that Proposition 16, the state ballot measure and constitutional amendment that would have repealed Proposition 209, did not pass in this election. Proposition 16 would have helped reverse the detrimental and far-reaching initiative that banned the consideration of race, ethnicity and gender in admissions across public higher education, and other arenas, almost a quarter-century ago.
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President Drake named chair of UC free speech center
October 27, 2020
University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., has been appointed chair of UC’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
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UC President Drake congratulates UCLA, UC Berkeley Nobel Prize winners
October 6, 2020
University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., released today (Oct. 6) the statement below following the announcement of Nobel Prize winners in physics. UCLA’s Andrea Ghez, a Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics, and UC Berkeley’s Reinhard Genzel, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, and director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, have been honored with the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics. Ghez is the fourth woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics.
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