Walter Robinson Content

IN MEMORIAM: Walter Robinson and Robbin Thorp

Dave Jones — September 24, 2019 - 1:08pm

The campus community is invited to a memorial for Walter Robinson, Tuesday, Oct. 8, in The Pavilion at the ARC at the Activities and Recreation Center.

The retired associate vice chancellor of Enrollment Management died June 9. Because it was late in the academic year, as finals and commencement approached, his friends and colleagues decided to delay the memorial until the fall.

IN MEMORIAM: Karen Roth, Chuck Fadley, Walter Robinson

Dave Jones — August 27, 2019 - 12:41pm

Karen Roth, instrumental in the development of diversity education, the Campus Community Book Project and the Principles of Community, died Aug. 6 of endometrial cancer at her home in Sisters, Oregon. She was 63.

She left 51�ԹϺ�� Davis in 2006 and taught part-time at Oregon State University-Cascades in Bend until 2008 when she became the director of diversity and inclusion in 2008 at Central Oregon Community College, also in Bend, a post she held until retiring last year.

Walter Robinson: Emulating His Kindness

Dave Jones — June 17, 2019 - 11:05am

A campus memorial event for Walter A. Robinson is being planned for the fall, but his friends and colleagues also wanted to pay tribute to him now. So they are asking people to join them in random acts of kindness for a week in memory of the “Random Acts of Kindness King.”

Meanwhile, a private burial is scheduled for this Friday (June 21) and a private celebration of life is scheduled for next week. Robinson, 66, died June 9 of heart failure at his home in Vallejo, about eight months after retiring as associate vice chancellor of Enrollment Management.

IN MEMORIAM: Walter Robinson, Enrollment Leader

Dave Jones — June 11, 2019 - 11:06am

Walter Robinson, who as the leader of Undergraduate Admissions and the office of Enrollment Management built a more diverse student body as enrollment climbed amid the 2020 Initiative, died Sunday (June 9) of heart failure at his home in Vallejo. He was 66.

Robinson had retired last September after seven years at 51�ԹϺ�� Davis and nearly 40 years in admissions and student services in higher education.

African drumming, dancing open 51�ԹϺ�� Davis student center

Julia Ann Easley — October 23, 2015 - 12:00am

WHAT: 51�ԹϺ�� Davis will celebrate the opening of its Center for African Diaspora Student Success with a ceremony featuring African drumming and dancing.

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.