Ron Austin’s UC Davis degree—earned 47 years after his first class—shows what’s possible with the right support. His story is helping inspire a regional “Comebacker Campaign,” part of the K–16 Regional Education Collaborative grant that includes UC Davis. Through this effort, partners across the region are building clearer, more connected pathways for returning students of all ages to complete their education and advance their careers.
On a single Saturday each spring, the UC Davis campus transforms into a vibrant hub of hope and opportunity as hundreds of students, families and educators gather for the César Chávez Youth Leadership Conference. This May, the event marks its 10th year of being hosted at UC Davis and its 23rd year serving students throughout the state.
University of California, Davis was one of only 10 universities in the U.S. to recently be recognized with an Institutional Excellence in DEIA in Biomedical and Behavioral Research Prize Competition from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
All students, including those from ethnoracially diverse and from white backgrounds, benefit from supportive learning environments that accommodate adolescents’ multiple cultural and ethnic backgrounds, according to new University of California, Davis, research. These benefits span the academic, social and emotional realms.
On Sunday, June 4, UC Davis hosted the community for an early celebration of Juneteenth. DEI's Aggie Black Excellence project presented one segment of the full day program, which featured healing, tributes to veterans and youth performance.
The website for the Sacramento K-16 Collaborative is now live and featured in a special edition of ProjectAttain’s newsletter. These two communication milestones signal an exciting season of progress in the K-16 Collaborative, a regional partnership facilitated under DEI's The IDEA.
