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Graduate Inclusive Excellence Initiatives

Graduate Inclusive Excellence Initiatives

  • Holistic U Orientation for New Graduate Students
  • Holistic U 2025: Engaging Academia Together is an in-person orientation that focuses on bringing together new graduate students to connect across graduate programs, viewpoints and interests. Participants will dialogue about challenging issues that students encounter in U.S. higher education. HU 2025 will also address strategies for first year graduate student success. The day will include participants from UC Davis campus leadership, graduate students and staff. All new graduate students are welcome to attend. Holistic U 2025 is planned for Thursday, September 11, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. in 1220 Walker Hall. Please see this link to indicate your interest in attending.
  • Graduate Anti-Racism Initiative   
  • UC Davis Graduate Studies opposes racial bias in any part of graduate education and training, and yet acknowledges that racism has shaped the development of academic research, methods of training graduate students and postdocs, and the make-up of faculty, students, and postdoctoral scholars.  Such bias has limited who has access to the development of human knowledge and has placed limits on that knowledge. We, therefore, commit to re-envisioning graduate education and training that actively rejects racist assumptions and structures. Each year Graduate Studies works with a faculty and graduate student committee to plan and host a GARS event that focuses on some form of anti-racism or a related topic, often building on other campus initiatives, such as the campus book project.
  • Equitable Graduate Admissions Training

  • This initiative is led by a committee of graduate program faculty and Graduate Studies' staff. Equitable Graduate Admissions Training (EGAT) workshops are offered four times annually. EGAT workshops focus on frameworks and best practices for equitable graduate admissions methods. 

    You can find information about this year's EGAT workshops and office hours on the Graduate Admissions and Outreach webpage.

    Faculty can also access valuable resources at this Box link. A UC Davis email must be used to access the Box folder.