Chancellor's Leadership and Development Speaker Series
The Chancellor’s Leadership Development Speaker Series (CLDS) is designed to:
- Create an avenue for students to interact with and familiarize themselves with the roles and responsibilities of individual members of the university’s leadership team.
- Offer information on university policies, structures, and resources to better support leadership and professional development among the student body.
- Familiarize students with the structure of university administration.
- Provide insight into the speaker's professional journey and vision for the future of their division, department, or program.
- Offer advice about how to foster growth and development in students’ own careers.
The speakers will focus on the steps they've taken to advance in their careers as well as share their vision for the future of their department or program. For more information, please contact the GSADC, Daniel Castaneda, at gradassistant@ucdavis.edu.
Door prize drawing: With each seminar attended, students earn one (1) entry into a drawing for one (1) of three (3) $50 VISA gift cards. Winners will be announced following the conclusion of the speaker series.
Academic Year 2023-2024
Pablo G. Reguerin: Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
March 2024 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | Walker Hall 1220 (Gibeling Conference Room)
As Vice Chancellor, Pablo Reguerín oversees the nearly 30 units that make up the Division of Student Affairs, including programs and partnerships that promote student learning and success, personal growth and lifelong education.
He has served as principal investigator on multiple U.S. Department of Education Hispanic Serving Institution, or HSI, Title V and Title III grants, totaling more than $15 million. His experience and expertise on HSI initiatives will further campus efforts to increase racial equity across student outcomes. Throughout his career, Reguerín has also been responsible for managing a wide array of fund sources within the UC system, including state general funds; student services fees; gift/donor funds; endowments; private, state and federal grants; and auxiliary revenue and student measure/referenda fees.
A recording of this session is available to UC Davis students, staff, and faculty here.
Kevin Johnson: Dean of UC Davis School of Law
Tuesday April 30, 2024 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Walker Hall 1220 (Gibeling Conference Room)
Kevin R. Johnson is Dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and Professor of Chicana/o Studies. He joined the UC Davis law faculty in 1989 and was named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1998. Johnson became Dean in 2008. He has taught a wide array of classes, including immigration law, civil procedure, complex litigation, Latinos and Latinas and the law, and Critical Race Theory. In 1993, he was the recipient of the law school's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Dean Johnson has published extensively on immigration law and civil rights. Published in 1999, his book How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Dean Johnson’s book, Immigration Law and the US-Mexico Border (2011), received the Latino Literacy Now’s International Latino Book Awards – Best Reference Book. He is co-author of two editions of Immigration Law and Social Justice (2d ed. 2022). Dean Johnson blogs at ImmigrationProf.
Please register for this event here.
Renetta Garrison Tull: Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | Walker Hall 1220 (Gibeling Conference Room)
Renetta Garrison Tull is the University of California Davis' inaugural Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), which houses Academic Diversity, the Office of Campus Community Relations, four centers, and Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (DEI within the medical school, nursing school and health center). She formerly served as Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at UMBC and as a Director for the University System of Maryland. In past roles at UMBC, Tull served as either Co-PI or PI on AGEP, ADVANCE, and LSAMP proposals. At Davis, she is PI of the PROMISE Engineering Institute. Her degrees in electrical engineering and speech science are from Howard University and Northwestern University, and she has had faculty roles at UW-Madison, University of Maryland College Park, UMBC.
Dr. Tull is on the Chief Diversity Officers Council for the University of California, and she is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis. An international speaker on global diversity in STEM, Dr. Tull was a Global Engineering Deans Council/Airbus Diversity Award Finalist and received the ABET Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity, and the Student Platform for Engineering Education Development Global Mentoring Award. She was part of the consensus committee for the National Academies’ “Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic STEMM” and is part of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) community. Her research interests in Humanitarian Engineering continue through sharing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Please register for this event here.
Past Speakers
- 2021 - 2022
• Pablo G. Reguerin, Ph.D.: Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs
• Joanna Regulska, Ph.D.: Vice Provost and Dean, Global Affairs
• Christine Lovely: Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Human Resources Officer2020-2021
- • Erum Abbasi Syed, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies
• Dr. Prasant Mohapatra, Vice Chancellor for Research
• Dr. Cory Vu, Associate Vice Chancellor for Health, Wellness, and Divisional Resources
• Dr. Maisha T. Winn, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Chancellor's Leadership Professor, and Co-Director of Transformative Justice in Education Center (TJE)
• Dr. Lorena Oropeza, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity
• Dr. Mary S. Croughan, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor - 2019-2020
- • Dr. Teresa Dillinger, Academic Administrator and Director
• Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, Associate Dean, Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
• Elizabeth Sturdy, Director of Advising and Mentoring
• Renetta Garrison Tull, Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Carolyn Thomas, Vice Provost & Dean of Undergraduate Education
• Sheri Atkinson, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Life, Campus Community and Retention Services