- Dr. Christine Balance has been hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies through the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Hiring Incentive Program at the University of California, Irvine. Currently, she is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Music at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Balance received a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998, a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University in 2007 and specializes in the areas of Asian American cultural studies with emphases on Filipino/Filipino American arts and culture, performance studies, American ethnic studies, gender & queer studies, and popular culture. She was awarded the prestigious Consortium for Faculty Diversity Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and the 2007– 2008 President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.
- UCI ADVANCE featured at UC Regents meeting held January 16th at UCLA. Douglas Haynes, Professor of History and Director of the ADVANCE Program, presented the ADVANCE Equity Advisor model and it's success in promoting gender and ethnic diversity in the professoriate.
- Department of History successfully recruits first scholarship on diversity professor. The Department of History welcomes Jessica Millward, a co-recipient of an Association of Black Women Historians best article award. She has taught courses on the US Slave Experience; Gender and Slavery; Race and Revolution, and Comparative Slave Rebellions. She received an M.A. in African American Studies and a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles and was an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before joining UCI's Department of History.
- UC Irvine Diversity Web Site
- University of California Office of the President Diversity Web Site
- PAID Partnership for Adaptation, Inplementation and Dissemination: Leading Through Diversity Website http://paid.uci.edu
- June 7, 2007 - The Assembly of the Irvine Academic Senate approved by-law changes to incorporate diversity into the oversight of the standing committees and councils of the senate.
For further information, please visit the senate web-site at: http://www.senate.uci.edu/images/senate_docs/carol/bylawsumapprovbydsa.doc
- UCI Pay Equity Study Update, 2006-07
The 2006-07 Pay Equity Study Update, which is based on Fall 2006 faculty salaries, is now available online for your review at http://www.ap.uci.edu/Equity/studies. I encourage you to examine the study results, particularly as they pertain to your own school. It is the goal of Academic Affairs to ensure equity in the academic personnel appointment and review process, and will continue to monitor faculty salaries with annual pay equity studies in order to assess our progress toward that goal.
Diversity and Gender Equity
- University of California Presidents Statement on Diversity
The UC President's Task Force on Faculty Diversity presented its recommendations on the challenges related to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty popultion at the President's Summit on Faculty Diversity in Oakland on May 23, 2006. Click here for a copy of the full report.
- Simon Leung, Associate Professor and Affiliate
Faculty in Asian American Studies, teaching critical theory, art
history, and new genres, is among three UC Irvine professors to receive 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded $8.2 million in fellowships this year to 190 artists, scholars and scientists from more than 2,600 applicants in the United States and Canada. He is also the recipient of the 2007 College Art Association's Art Journal Award for his essay, “The Look of Law.”
- Linda Vo, Chair and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, is named one of OC Metro's "20 Women to Watch", which was published March 13th, 2008, recognizing her works to educate and mobilize the Asian American community in Orange County.
- Michael Goodrich, Professor in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences has been named a Chancellors Professor effective April 1, 2007. This title is conferred for a five-year renewable term and recognizes scholars who have demonstrated unusual academic merit and whose continued promise for scholarly achievenment makes them of exceptional value to the university.
- Kristen Day, Associate Professor in the School of Social Ecology has been selected by Chancellor Drake to participate in the UC Senior Leadership Institute, a residential program for select academic and administrative leaders who have the potential to serve the university at the highest levels. The institute wil take place June 17-21 in San Diego, California. Additionally, Professor Day is the recipient of the 2007-2008 Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Service. This important recognition from the Senate follows her recent selection as American Council on Education Fellow (2007-2008). This is the third time in as many years that a faculty member associated with the UCI ADVANCE Program has been honored with the Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Service.
- Diane O'Dowd, Professor of School of Biological Sciences has been selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, which honors outstanding research scientists who strive to ignite the scientific spark in a new generation of students.
UCI Campus Updates
Search and Recruitment Activities
The University currently has one active executive searcher:UCI is committed to salary equity in the faculty reward process. Each year, a salary equity study is done to evaluate the effectiveness of its efforts. In addition, the Campus has a Career Equity review process.
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