Dozens of people gathered Wednesday (Feb. 1) on the Memorial Union’s South Patio for A Campuswide Moment of Reflection and a minute of silence for recent victims of violence around the nation. Sadness and tears marked the occasion but there was anger, too. “We can feel and be angry, we can be outraged, and we ought to be,” said the Rev. Quentisha Davis Wiles, senior pastor at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Sacramento. “The soul of our nation is wounded and it is grieving.”
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Shola Richards will give keynote on “Unstoppable Resilience”
Activities also include Scavenger Hunt and Petting Zoo(m)!
Thank goodness for a Thank Goodness for Staff celebration this year that isn’t completely virtual.
With an easing of COVID-19 restrictions in our region, TGFS organizers saw an opportunity to treat staff to a drive-in movie, Friday (May 21). Not exactly an in-person event with people from outside your household, but close enough!
HERE COMES THE SUN
Your 2021 TGFS Logo Contest winner is Mark Deamer of Information and Educational Technology, where his responsibilities include web/graphic design and communications. About the logo, which appears at the top of this page, Deamer explained: “The sun peeking out of the cloud represents new days and new hope ahead.” Thank you for your optimism, Mark, and congratulations.
Campus Community Book Project all about mental health
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It was more than a year ago when the UC Davis Campus Council on Community and Diversity chose the topic of “mental health” as the theme for the 2020-21 Campus Community Book Project.
The council at that time had no way of knowing about the pandemic that would arrive in March 2020, making the “mental health” theme all the more important.
UC Davis curtailed operations (except for health care), and many employees started working from home. Students switched to remote learning. Many employees continue to work remotely, balancing their job and child care responsibilities (including being their children’s schoolteachers). Then came the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and the resulting protests. Then came the wildfires, some of the biggest the state has ever seen, with many UC Davis affiliates having to evacuate and some losing their homes.