2011 Chancellor's Achievement Awards for Diversity
- 2011 recipients of the Chancellor's Achievement Awards for Diversity
- Past recipients of the Chancellor's Achievement Awards for Diversity
UCSC has many individuals and units that contribute significantly to our diversity and inclusion efforts. Some examples of achievements include: student-to-student outreach programs; developing cutting-edge recruitment programs; developing successful mentoring and retention programs; providing opportunities for academic and staff employees to advance in their careers; influencing peers on decisions that affect equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, inclusion and diversity at UC Santa Cruz; and advancing the understanding and field of diversity through research, publications and other media.
Diversity recognition and award programs offer important opportunities to promote and institutionalize diversity and honor those who actualize our Principles of Community. The Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity highlight diversity as a campus priority and a necessity for maintaining institutional excellence. In addition, the awards process, event and publicity showcase campus diversity achievements and best practices to internal and external audiences; and enable students and academic and staff employees to communicate and document their achievements.
The Chancellor's Achievement Awards for Diversity are sponsored by:
Chancellor's Office/Campus Diversity Officers
Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Academic Personnel Office
Staff Human Resources
2011 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity. These awards honor and showcase campus faculty, staff, students, programs and organizations that have made outstanding contributions in furthering diversity and inclusion at UCSC.- Darrell Long, professor of computer science and Kumar Malavalli Professor of Storage Systems Research
- Christine J. Hong, assistant professor of literature
- Teresa Valenzuela and Martha Valle, senior cooks in Crown/Merrill Dining
- Donald G. Williams, director of Cultural Arts and Diversity
- Jasmine K. Syedullah, graduate student in politics
- Janette Esmeralda Linares, undergraduate student in politics/Latin American and Latino studies
- Sociedad Estudiantil de Psicólog@s Avanzando (S.E.P.A.), student organization
- Third World and Native American Student Press Collective (TWANAS), student organization
- UCSC Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE), student organization
Excerpts about the awardees:
“Since her arrival on campus in 2009, professor Hong has committed not only her research and teaching efforts, but every available service opportunity to the work of affirmative action and diversity. Her intellectual work is seamlessly tied to her activist work among students and in the larger public community. She is an exceptional example of how the work of town and gown—community and academia, can be reconciled to benefit both. Her energy, commitment, intellectual acumen, and outspoken articulation in the service of the ideals of diversity are extraordinary.”
“[Don Williams] brings things out in people that they never knew existed and he gives us the tools and the confidence to use our talents to both express ourselves and to uplift others through our own power. He has also given us a family and a safe place here at UCSC through Rainbow Theater and AATAT where we can feel comfortable and accepted….”
“While [Jasmine Syedullah] has worked tirelessly in several capacities with the administration, perhaps her best work is her tireless advocacy for individual students and her commitment to their success. She tutors, mentors, and advises students almost daily, a responsibility that is completely informal and one she takes seriously and without complaint.”
“Throughout [Janette Linares’s] years as an undergraduate, she has been part of a number of Latin@ organizations that are dedicated to create and provide a safe space to the underrepresented community. …She has become a very inspirational role model to many other undergraduates here on campus.”
“TWANAS perseveres in creating a space for students, many of them from historically underrepresented communities, to tell their stories, as well as to give a voice to stories that would otherwise remain untold.”
Past Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity Recipients
2011
Professor Darrell Long
Assistant Professor Christine J. Hong
Teresa Valenzuela
Martha Valle
Donald G. Williams
Jasmine K. Syedullah
Janette Esmeralda Linares
Sociedad Estudiantil de Psicólog@s Avanzando (S.E.P.A.)
Third World and Native American Student Press Collective (TWANAS)
UCSC Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE)
2010
Associate Professor Roberto Manduchi
Professor Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Professor Charlie McDowell
Carlos Salas
Lizzie Yasser
April Goral
Alexander Whittlesey
Kathryn Koumatos
Leda Hernandez
Matthew Palm
Global Brigades
2009
Professor Eugene Switkes
Professor Karen Tei Yamashita
Associate Adjunct Professor Adriane Steinacker
Shante Lewis
Theikdi
Educational Partnership Center (EPC)
2008
Professor Richard Hughey
Associate Professor Ingrid Parker
Associate Professor Renee Tajima-Peña
Dean of Students Alma Sifuentes
Latin American & Latino Studies
UC Santa Cruz Dining
2007
Associate Professor Gina Dent
Professor Russ Flegal
Julio Cardona
Minh Tran
CEMELA
2005
Professor Martin Chemers
Professor Pradip Mascharak
Professor Barry Bowman
Professor Leo Ortiz
Bernice Frankl
Nancy-Cox Konopelski
Nandini Bhattacharya
Richard Baldwin
Nancy Kim
Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community
History of Consciousness
2004
Professor Phil Crews
Alex Reveles
Dining Services University
Multicultural Engineering Program
Chicano/Latino Research Center
2003
Professor Tara Madhyastha
Professor David Belanger
Professor Judy Yung
Professor Mary Silver
Ilse Kolbus and Jesse Magaña
VC Francisco J. Hernandez and
Student Affairs Division
Library Cultural Diversity Committee