Principles of Community Content

Kick Off Principles of Community Celebration Feb. 10

Cody Kitaura — February 04, 2025 - 12:29pm

Get ready to celebrate our community’s vibrant diversity and unity! Registration is now open for this year’s Principles of Community Celebration, taking place on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. This annual event is an incredible opportunity to honor the values of inclusion, equity, and respect that make our community strong.

UC Davis Honors 35 Years of the Principles of Community

Cody Kitaura — February 04, 2025 - 9:50am

Thirty-five years ago, a community of UC Davis students came together to define a shared set of values related to a sense of belonging and respect that would shape the university’s future. What started as a grassroots movement in Student Housing has since grown into a core part of UC Davis’ identity, culture and everyday interactions.

To mark this milestone, UC Davis is launching a 10-month-long commemoration starting this February under the theme “Principles of Community, by Community, for Community.”

UC Davis Campus Leadership Reaffirms the Principles of Community

Amy E Rafferty — November 08, 2023 - 3:15pm

Chancellor Gary S. May and other UC Davis leaders have issued a video message in which they discussed the importance of fostering a campus community founded on connection, mutual respect and kindness, even as external events create challenges. They reaffirmed UC Davis’ Principles of Community, which underlie a learning and research environment in which people can be their authentic selves and contribute to the university and beyond.

Watch the video below:

‘Soaring’ Presentation of Diversity and Principles of Community Awards

Dave Jones — May 30, 2023 - 1:08pm

UC Davis held its Soaring to New Heights celebration as an in-person event for the first time since 2019, presenting Diversity and Principles of Community Awards nd Calvin E. Handy Leadership Awards.

Celebrating the Principles of Community

Dave Jones — February 15, 2022 - 3:52pm

Principles of Community Week, starting Feb. 22, “is a time to remember and celebrate our collective values such as affirming the right of freedom of expression, rejecting violence in all forms and rejecting all manifestations of discrimination.”

Celebrating and Exploring During Principles of Community Week

Cody Kitaura — February 23, 2021 - 9:49am

UC Davis is celebrating its Principles of Community this week — the ideals that “keep us grounded in a spirit of mutual respect,” as Chancellor Gary S. May said during the opening ceremony Monday (Feb. 22).

“It means we find strength in our diversity and recognize the value we all bring ��Ƶ, no matter what our background or point of view may be,” May said of the document, first signed in 1990.

Reaffirming the Meaning Behind the Principles of Community

Cody Kitaura — February 09, 2021 - 11:00am

Principles of Community Week is approaching, and after the events of 2020 the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is asking the campus community to describe the document in a campaign that will become a reaffirmation of our values — the way Aggies treat one another and want to be treated — in future years.

“When you — our students, our educators, our researchers, our staff — think about what the Principles of Community ought to be, what words come to mind?” the office said in an email to students today (Feb. 9).

Shout It Out: Principles of Community Week

Dave Jones — February 20, 2020 - 7:19am

Every day is Principles of Community Day at UC Davis, though we need not say it out loud. We know it’s there, this document that embodies the values about treating one another and how we want to be treated ourselves, with equity and justice.

Celebrating the Principles of Community

Dave Jones — February 24, 2019 - 3:51pm

Updated 3:30 p.m. Feb. 19: The sand mandala project has been canceled, but the Community Art Mandala Workshop is still on for Thursday, Feb. 28. See the schedule below.

The Updated 6 p.m. Feb. 13 to note a change in time for the Racial Healing Circle, and to add it to the list of events for which RSVPs are requested.

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UC Davis Stands With LGBTQIA+ Community in Renouncing Ted Hickman’s Remarks

Dave Jones — July 12, 2018 - 8:10pm

Twelve UC Davis advisory committees, faculty and staff associations and other organizations on the Davis and Sacramento campuses issued the following letter today (July 12):

Dear Campus Community,