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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. This year the Equitable Graduate Admissions Training (EGAT) workshops are offered four times. EGAT workshops focus on frameworks and best practices for equitable graduate admissions methods. In the 2025/2026 academic year, four workshops are being offered on,

    Friday, October 24, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., https://ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_56o0YOqIjcjeNfw
    Tuesday, October 28, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.,  https://ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0xllu9bG6MKM2H
    Thursday, November 13, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., https://ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8oFgBEOoS0LXwuG 
    Wednesday, November 19, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., https://ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bIcG83wfZfHXK4u

    This year EGAT is also offering three opportunities to ask questions at the office hours below.
    Monday, November 17, 9:00 to 10:00 am. Zoom
    Thursday, December 11, 12:00 to 1:00 pm. Zoom
    Tuesday, January 6, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Zoom

    Faculty can also access valuable resources at this Box link.  One must use their UC Davis email to access the Box folder.