/ Retention Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /news/uc-davis-joins-effort-graduate-50000-more-lower-income-students-2025 <p>The University of California, Davis, is joining some of the nation’s most respected colleges and universities in an alliance to substantially increase the number of talented lower-income students who graduate nationally.</p> April 24, 2017 - 12:15pm Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-joins-effort-graduate-50000-more-lower-income-students-2025 /news/campus-hires-first-director-chicano-and-latino-retention-initiatives <p>Michelle Villegas-Frazier, who had worked in outreach programs on campus for a decade, returned April 1 to become the first director of strategic Native American retention initiatives in Student Affairs.</p> <p>Most recently program coordinator in the office of Student and Resident Diversity at the School of Medicine, she brings with her more than 20 years of experience in Native American outreach and retention services and programs.</p> April 12, 2016 - 4:02pm Julia Ann Easley /news/campus-hires-first-director-chicano-and-latino-retention-initiatives /news/african-drumming-dancing-open-uc-davis-student-center <p>WHAT: 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis will celebrate the opening of its Center for African Diaspora Student Success with a ceremony featuring African drumming and dancing.</p> <p>At the heart of the campus's new African-American Initiative, the center will facilitate many services -- including on-site tutoring, academic advising and mental health counseling -- to support those historically underrepresented in higher education.</p> <p>See the full release at: <a href="http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=11332">http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=11332</a></p> October 23, 2015 - 12:00am Julia Ann Easley /news/african-drumming-dancing-open-uc-davis-student-center