Diversity Content

Web App Helps Instructors Know Large Classes

Julia Ann Easley — September 10, 2024 - 2:30pm

More ΢��Ƶ instructors are encouraged to use Know Your Students, which provides class-level demographics.

Diversity Blooms Within The Queer Flower Bed

Malia Reiss — May 28, 2024 - 3:48pm

Lavender reaches toward the sky. Carnations and pansies wave slightly in the breeze. Roses swell with the sun.

Diversity blooms within The Queer Bed, a floral testament to beauty, love, and empowerment within the queer community.

Record Number Apply for Undergraduate Studies at ΢��Ƶ

Julia Ann Easley — March 06, 2024 - 9:00am

A record high of 115,349 students applied to the University of California, Davis, for undergraduate studies in fall 2024.

The applications represented a 4.7% increase over the previous record of 110,189 applications for fall 2022 and 5.5% over last year’s 109,350. There was even higher growth in applications from groups historically underrepresented in higher education, as well as students seeking to transfer from California Community Colleges.

A Medical School That Looks More Like California

Jocelyn C Anderson — February 20, 2024 - 9:40am

How does ΢��Ƶ School of Medicine make admissions equitable? A holistic review ensures that a diverse group of students enters the medical field.

Martin Yan To Be Guest Chef on Campus

Julia Ann Easley — January 23, 2024 - 9:00am

Celebrity chef and ΢��Ƶ alum Martin Yan will present cooking demonstrations, mingle with diners at Latitude Restaurant and more during a campus visit this week.

He is the second guest chef to share inspiration and recipes with campus chefs as they diversify the menus in residential dining facilities.

His activities at Latitude on Friday include:

΢��Ƶ Enrollment Makes Gains in Diversity

Julia Ann Easley — January 19, 2024 - 10:30am

΢��Ƶ made significant gains in the diversity of its entering class as it enrolled a total of 40,848 students in fall 2023.

΢��Ƶ Rises to 6th Among Nation’s Top Public Universities

Julia Ann Easley — September 17, 2023 - 9:01pm

΢��Ƶ, rose to tie for sixth place among the nation’s top public universities in rankings published today (Sept. 17) by U.S. News & World Report.

In the Face of Supreme Court Ruling, How Can Equality Still Be Achieved?

Karen Michele Nikos — July 05, 2023 - 10:57am

This Supreme Court’s unfettered commitment to a colorblind constitution has undone the affirmative action project in higher education of almost five decades.

A Renewed Emphasis on Diversity in Faculty Hiring

Cody Kitaura — October 11, 2022 - 3:32pm

΢��Ƶ is embracing the philosophy that the world’s most serious problems can be solved only by people with a wide variety of perspectives, and is encouraging colleges and schools all over campus to infuse their recruitments for new faculty members with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.

΢��Ƶ-Led Team Awarded $3 Million Grant to Assess Pandemic Recovery Efforts by Community Colleges

Karen Michele Nikos — October 05, 2022 - 10:00am

The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences has awarded a $3 million research grant to a University of California, Davis-led research team to assess pandemic recovery efforts undertaken by the California Community Colleges.