Sheri Ledbetter

Jan 14, 2025 | news.uci.edu | Sheri Ledbetter |UC Irvine

Cultivating Community: Awareness, Courage and Empowerment is the 2024-25 theme for UC Irvine’s Office of Inclusive Excellence. As part of that, OIE has launched a new campus climate initiative, the U.C.I. Experience – Understanding a Culture of Inclusion, guided by the intention to fully support every student, staff and faculty member in their learning and professional journeys.

Oct 4, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Sheri Ledbetter

Rameen Talesh, UC Irvine’s associate vice chancellor of student life and leadership, as well as dean of students, has been selected as a 2025 NASPA Pillar of the Profession for his outstanding contributions to student affairs. Each year, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators acknowledges about 20 individuals nationwide for their exceptional impact in the discipline. “I am deeply humbled and honored by this recognition.

Jul 17, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Sheri Ledbetter

UC Irvine’s pioneering all-electric bus fleet grew in May when it added five 40-foot ZX5 battery electric buses. The new buses came from PhoenixEV, a leading manufacturer of innovative electric buses. UC Irvine has had an electric fleet since January 2018 and is the first university in the nation to go all electric. Since then, UC Irvine has added 25 buses to its fleet, logging 1,183,210 miles. The buses annually travel 184,938 miles, averaging 3,555 miles weekly.

Jun 7, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Sheri Ledbetter |UC Irvine

In 2021, UC Irvine officially became a health-promoting university through the adoption of the Okanagan Charter. In this edition of the UCI Podcast, Doug Everhart, director of Student Wellness and Health Promotion, will discuss what it means to adopt the Okanagan Charter, how it enables UC Irvine to be a health-promoting university and explore the creation of its comprehensive wellbeing initiative.

Apr 22, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Sheri Ledbetter |UC Irvine

The Bonnie Reiss Climate Action Fellowship Program (formerly known as the Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellowship Program) funds student-generated projects that support the University of California system’s climate action goals. All 10 UC campuses, five academic health centers, the UC Office of the President, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory participate in the program, which began in spring 2015.