Events

Staff Conversations with UCSC CDO-SS Dr. Linda Scholz 

This is an opportunity to dialogue with Dr. Scholz about your UCSC staff experience. Come prepared to share your perspective on current campus climate and ideas on how we can continue to support diversity and foster equity and inclusion to enact our Principles of Community. 

Scotts Valley Center Session:
DateWednesday, May 10th
Time12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: Board Room, Room 1115, Scotts Valley Center

UCSC Campus Session:
DateMonday, May 15th
Time12:00pm - 1:30pm
LocationCervantes & Velasquez Room, Bay Tree Building

February Meeting

Tuesday, Feb. 28 - Noon - 1:30 p.m. 
Kerr 212

Our special guest speaker this month is our newly appointed Campus Diversity Officer for Staff & Students, Teresa Maria Linda Scholz. She will be talking a little bit about her background and some of the things she would like to bring to UCSC and will also be asking us how she can help our group. I hope you can come and meet Linda and give her a warm welcome to UCSC and the SDG.

We will also take the last 30 minutes of the meeting to discuss the next project we should take on now that the Allies for Inclusion event is complete. I will be bringing the list of ideas we had from the June Planning meeting.

Feel free to bring your lunch. Refreshments will be served. If you are coming from off campus or the base of campus, contact me (ricki@ucsc.edu) as we have carpools going up to Kresge that can take you if needed.

2017 Staff Diversity Group Allies for Inclusion Special Event

Wed Jan 18, 2017 12pm – 1pm
Kresge Town Hall

Our special guest speaker this month is Haben Girma. She is the first deaf/blind person to graduate from Harvard Law School. She has received awards from 2 US Presidents. This is an extraordinary opportunity to see a world class speaker and will be part of the larger Allies for Inclusion event at Kresge Town Hall which includes the Ability Exhibit which helps develop allies for people with disabilities.

Feel free to bring your lunch. Refreshments will be served.

If you are coming from off campus or the base of campus, contact me (ricki@ucsc.edu) as we have carpools going up to Kresge that can take you if needed.

(Because of this event we will not have the regularly scheduled January meeting).

Staff Diversity Group December Meeting

Our next meeting is Tuesday, December 20 from 12:30 – 2 p.m. in Kerr 212

Our guest speaker this month is Marie Logan, Director of BAS Operations & Resource Management. She will present a session on Tools for Innovation and Inclusion. Participants will be invited to learn and practice tools for innovation and inclusion during the session, and by the end will understand how to use these effective methods for engaging staff members in their everyday work and feel comfortable initiating their use, whether they are a manager or an individual contributor. Marie originally learned about these tools during a meeting at the CSU Chancellor’s Office and then learned more about them at a national conference where she made connections with people from all over the country who are using them with great success. Come and find out how to more effectively and inclusively engage your colleagues.

Staff Diversity Group November Meeting

Tuesday, Nov 29 from 12:30 – 2 p.m. in Kerr 212

Our guest speakers this month will be Rick Gubash, the Director of Disability Resource Centerand Catherine L. Green, Assistant Director of ARCH. They will be talking about an event called “Allies for Inclusion” which is scheduled to happen in January 2017. We will be partnering with them on this event. Catherine will be telling us about the exhibit that will be on display and Rick will be telling us about the fabulous guest speaker that he has secured. This speaker, Haben Girma, is First Deaf-Blind Harvard Law graduate. She is a Civil Rights attorney who, among other amazing things, has spoken before President Obama at the White House. She will be the first speaker in our “Diversity of Thought” series. I am excited to hear about what we can expect at this great event!

Staff Diversity Group October Meeting

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 12pm – 1:30pm  in Kerr 212

Our guest speaker this month will be Scott Hernandez-Jason. Scott is the Director of News and Media Relations at UCSC and is part of a new committee formed this year, co-chaired by Ashish Sahni, Associate Chancellor and Professor Kimberly Lau which is focused on the campus response to national climate. One goal of this committee is to elevate and showcase the importance of cultural competency and appreciation and support of diversity. He will be speaking on these topics and how the Staff Diversity Group might help facilitate some of these goals.

Feel free to bring your lunch. Refreshments will be served.

Staff Diversity Group September Meeting

Welcome to our first meeting of the academic year!
Thu Sep 29, 2016 12pm – 1:30pm  in Kerr 212

Our guest speaker this month will be Vicki Duval. Vicki was hired at UCSC one year ago to develop and run the Restorative Justice Program in collaboration with CHES (Housing) and the Student Conduct Office. She has been working in the field of Restorative Justice and Conflict Resolution for the past 20 years, developing and directing programs, and she has a Master's degree in Restorative Justice and Conflict Resolution.

Feel free to bring your lunch. Refreshments will be served.

If you are coming from off campus or the base of campus, contact me (ricki@ucsc.edu) as we have carpools going up to Kerr Hall that can take you if needed.

Check out the UCSC Diversity Events Calendar!