Anti Blackness and Systemic Racism Commitment
The Samueli School of Engineering (SSoE) is committed to taking action to dismantle anti-blackness and institutional systemic racism. We are compassionate about ensuring equitable access and equal opportunity. We pledge to confront anti-Blackness to build a thriving culture for Black people and people of all backgrounds.
Ensuring Equal Opportunity
We acknowledge the existence of anti-Black racism and prioritizes the campus commitment to create a university culture where Black people thrive. We aim to reflect California’s demographics in our SSoE community by growing our population of Black faculty, students, staff, researchers, and partners to match or exceed the state’s current Black population of 6%.
A Welcoming Place for All
We are accepting of the diversity of our local, national and international diaspora of Black communities. We aim to welcome and embrace individual and intersectional lived experiences, different ways of thinking, cultures, political perspectives, religious beliefs, gender identities, physical differences, races, ethnicities, learning differences, social, invisible, intersectional and all other differences in identities to thrive in our school and at our campus.
Fostering Equity
We are committed to fostering educational opportunities for anti-blackness and systemic racism in a safe and inclusive environment. We aim to engage our engineering community in socially responsible learning, research, and public service.
Through our stories, counternarratives, and conversations, our goal is to create a community where Black people are recognized and thrive. Advancing this commitment is ongoing and collaborative to ensure that our practices and policies are continually shaped by real-time needs of all people and incorporate feedback from multiple communities to best serve all both now and in the future.
Join our UCI community as we pledge to build a culture where Black people thrive at UCI. The pledge invites you to:
- Acknowledge the existence of anti-Blackness.
- Understand your relationship to anti-Black macro- and microaggressions.
- Recognize the uncredited labor that Black people expend to manage the daily effects of unconscious and conscious acts of bias, prejudice and bigotry.
- Confront anti-Blackness to build a thriving culture for Black people.
