Dynes to visit Davis, med center campuses
Campus community members are invited to a Dialogue with Robert Dynes and performances by students and faculty in music and dance on May 27 as Dynes makes his first visit to UC Davis since becoming UC president last October. The free festivities run 1:30-3:15 p.m. in Mon-davi Center.
Staff, faculty, students and community members will have an opportunity to meet the president and ask questions during the hourlong dialogue. Questions will be posed by members of the California Aggie editorial board from 1:30 to 2 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session with audience members from 2 to 2:30 p.m.
Afterward, music and dance performances will be offered by UC Davis students and faculty members, from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m.
Dynes' May 27-28 visit to the Davis and medical center campuses is part of his continuing statewide tour that kicked off in November. He has been meeting with alumni, students, staff, faculty, elected officials and business leaders throughout the state.
UC graded well on access for low-income
Six UC campuses, including UC Davis, enroll more low-income students than any other top university in the country, public or private, according to a new national study.
The study by Tom Mortenson of Postsecon-dary Education Opportunity, a national news-letter on access to higher education, looked at the top 50 national universities as ranked by U.S. News & World Report and ranked them according to the number of Pell Grant recipients they enrolled. Recipients of the grants come from low-income families whose earnings are usually below $35,000 a year.
The six UC campuses that made the U.S. News & World Report list fill all the top slots in Mortenson's study. UCLA enrolled the highest percentage of low-income students in the nation, with 35.1 percent of its students qualifying for Pell Grants. UC Berkeley follows, with 32.4 percent; UC Irvine is third with 31.5 percent; UC Davis, fourth with 28.5 percent; UC San Diego, fifth with 28.3 percent; and UC Santa Barbara, sixth with 24.8 percent. UC analyses reveal that its other two undergraduate campuses also enroll high percentages of low-income students: UC Riverside (40.9 percent) and UC Santa Cruz (26.7 percent).
Chancellor search on
UC President Robert Dynes last week named a 15-member committee to advise him in the search for the next chancellor of UC Santa Cruz. M.R.C. Greenwood, former chancellor of UCSC, became UC's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs on April 1. Dynes hopes to bring a recommendation on a candidate to the regents in early fall.
A search also is under way to replace UC Berkeley chancellor Robert Berdahl, who in September announced his plans to step down this June.