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Olive Tree Initiative

Expressions/Impressions, Vol. 6, Spring 2009

Expressions / Impressions
Olive Tree Initiative Special Edition
(selected pages PDF)
To request a copy, please e-mail the Office of the Vice Chancellor Student Affairs.

Difficult Dialogues: UCI recieves Ford Foundation Grant

UC Irvine has received a prestigious grant from the Ford Foundation to establish a program titled
Imagining The Future.

Imagining The Future is a unique combination of academic courses, university-sponsored group research competition, intellectual project and community dialogue and education forum that seeks to raise awareness within the campus and surrounding community of myriad options for resolving some of the most difficult issues that continue to frustrate a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The UCI Difficult Dialogues project is host to a wide range of ongoing programs and events.

 

Campus Messages, Commentaries & Articles

2009

Letter from the 2008-09 UCI Dalai Lama Scholars Moran Cohen and Ali Malik (PDF)
June 2009

Presentation to Staff Assembly Forum – Chancellor Drake
April 17

2009 Living Our Values Awards – Chancellor Drake
March 3

A Light For Gaza: Delivered to the UCI community that gathered to commemorate the victims in Gaza – Vice Chancellor Gómez
January 21

2008

Candlelight Vigil for Mumbai: Spoken to those who gathered to commemorate the victims of terror attack in Mumbai – Vice Chancellor Gómez
December 4

Imagining the Future: Cultivating Civility in a Field of Discontent – Vice Chancellor Gómez
Change, The Magazine of Higher Learning – March/April 2008

Chancellor Drake Participates in Hillel Summit
March 24

Students’ Candlelight Vigil for Mercaz Harav Yeshiva - Vice Chancellor Gómez
March 11

2007

Irvine safe for Jewish students: Instances of UC outsiders' hateful speech don't reflect the reality on campus – Academic Senate Chair Martha Mecartney
OC Register – May 10

UCI Anti-Semitism Distorted
UCI New University – March 5

Remarks on President Jimmy Carter's Lecture – Chancellor Drake
May 3

2006

Chancellor’s Message on Hate Speech – Chancellor Drake
May 30

The First Amendment At Work – Vice Chancellor Gómez
May 19

UC Irvine Values – Chancellor Drake
May 9

Chancellor Preaches Tolerance
UCI New University – February 13

2005

Chancellor's Fall Message, 2005
October 12

Up-Close and Personal With Chancellor Drake
UCI New University – September 16

Respecting Free Speech at UC Irvine
Fire's The Torch – June 8

Respecting Free Speech in Our Community – Vice Chancellor Gómez
UCI New University – June 6

Letters to the Editor: Chancellor Defends Academic Discussion – Chancellor Cicerone
UCI New University – January 24

2004

Letter from the Vice Chancellor – Vice Chancellor Gómez
UCI New University – September 27

Time to stand back, take a deep breath – Executive Assoc. Dean of Students Lewis (PDF-Requires Adobe Reader)
Daily Pilot – June 27

To Protect Our Freedoms – Vice Chancellor Gómez
Speech – May 27

2003

UCI Keeps a Balance Between Free Speech and Academics – Vice Chancellor Gómez
UCI New University – January 6

2002

Gómez Defends Freedom of Speech – Vice Chancellor Gómez
UCI New University – April 28

Chancellor Responds to Fear – Chancellor Cicerone
UCI New University – April 28

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