October 29, 2024
The Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society, presented by UC San Diego Extended Studies, was founded to provide a dedicated platform for exploring the big questions that religion was meant to answer. This season, the lectureship, which celebrates its 40th anniversary at UC San Diego in April 2025, presented two…
March 3, 2022
…After several years of advocacy by the Women’s Resource Center student organization and the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, a new center was approved and opened on Oct. 14, 1996. This March we commemorate Women’s “Herstory” Month as well as the 25th anniversary of UC San Diego’s…
November 22, 2022
As a Filipino international student at UC San Diego, I watched what might have been the most talked-about issue at COP27: the concept of loss and damage in which those most responsible for the climate change that has taken place so far help those with less to do with it…
March 3, 2022
…addition, numerous educational and advocacy programs engage the campus community, including the Black Academic Excellence Initiative, which works to foster an environment of equity, diversity, and inclusion for our Black community. In addition, the Latinx/Chicanx Academic Excellence Initiative was formed as a holistic infrastructure of support and community. UC San…
March 10, 2016
…queer people of color advocacy,” explained Taylor-García. “We wanted to create an organization where the politics of race, gender, class and sexuality were given equal importance and understood intersectionally.” Public gatherings are held to connect queer and transgender people of color in San Diego, share information, foster personal and professional…
February 24, 2022
…professional within the Campus Advocacy, Resources and Education division (CARE) at SARC, Ashley Cooper works tirelessly to make sure survivors of sexual violence are given the best help possible. She is known for her work ethic; during staffing changes caused by the pandemic, Cooper nearly single-handedly managed all CARE prevention…
October 29, 2024
The academic year started with a lot to celebrate as 2,000 students moved into a long-awaited living and learning neighborhood with a new undergraduate college, and across campus, another new neighborhood became the campus home of 1,300 upper-division undergraduates and transfer students.
March 26, 2020
…overwhelmed by support and advocacy from colleagues and university leadership. For example, the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) has contributed $10,000 to assist in the development of prototypes. “The UC San Diego family is really pulling together on this one,” said Petersen. “From the dean,…
August 6, 2024
The UC San Diego Alumni Association has welcomed a new slate of executive officers and directors to its ranks, led by incoming board president Melody Gonzales ’02.
June 16, 2022
…Big West Conference. Bourkoff’s advocacy for the movement was demonstrated in a letter to the editor of the UC San Diego Guardian Newspaper two weeks before the election. “A Division I athletics program broadens the campus experience, bringing with it increased campus pride, a healthy rivalry with neighboring schools and…
