Group 3 – Campus Culture: Retention, Persistence and Thriving in the Academy

Each of the six Dismantling Systemic Racism Work Groups are addressing systemic anti-Black racism on the UCI campus. The effort is a grassroots effort to cultivate solutions from faculty, staff, students and the community.

The Campus Culture: Retention, Persistence and Thriving in the Academy Work Group will begin by addressing the questions below.

• What policies and practices help or prevent Black faculty, staff, and students thrive at UCI?
• What policies and practices can help retain Black faculty, staff and students once we’ve recruited them here?
• How can we leverage programs or initiatives to enhance Black faculty, staff, and students’ experience at UCI?
• How might we better evaluate the campus climate, and be more honest and completely transparent in our reporting (ie: disaggregating by race, asking the difficult questions, reporting all data, even the uncomfortable truths).
• How do seemingly neutral evaluative standards/criteria, practices, and processes that are routinely employed in faculty searches, merit/promotion reviews, and created by the Academic Senate, AP Office, and CAP reduce African-American faculty representation, cultivate a culture of anti-Blackness and, in general, undercut diversity efforts and initiatives throughout the university?
• How might changes to the evaluative criteria, practices, and processes increase the number of and improve the campus climate for African-American faculty members and students?
• What policy changes would be required?

Bruce Aquino
Mehrsa Baradaran
Ian Baran
Meg Beatrice
Jose Bermudez
Victoria Bredow
Jared Celniker
Naomi Chesler
Dana Conlin
Susan Coutin
Priyam Das
Jesse De La Cruz
Rakia Dhaoui
Niroshi Dissanayake
Ekpeju E-Nunu
Sanjanaa Ellur
Somphone Eno
Kathie Foley-Meyer
Roxanne Ford
Solange Fortenbach
Itzel Garcia

Hamsa Gowda
Alison Holman
Rosanna Horton
May Hui
Sydney Ishikawa
Susanne Jaeggi
Dominic Javonillo
Wesley Jeffrey
Sarah Kark
Scott Kilianski
Reisha Ladwa
Anita Lakatos
Kalan Leaks
Star Lee
Angela Lukowski
Dina Matheos
Lauren Merlino
Connie McGuire
Elizabeth Muehlmann
Janet Nava Cardenas
Teresa Neighbors

Joanna Pardo
Arlette Perez
Eden Phair
Melody Powell
Diana Restrepo
Nalya A. Rodriguez
Josue Ruedas
Rowena Santos
Hugo Sanchez Hernandez
Ana Schugurensky
Akina Shimizu
Olivia Silke
Constance Steinkuehler
Olivia Stroud
Anju Subba
Danielle Sugano
Krystal Tribbett
Alina Tu
Laura Tucker
Kameko Washburn