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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis since becoming 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ graded well on access for low-income
Six 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ campuses, including 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ campuses that made the U.S. News & World Report list fill all the top slots in Mortenson's study. 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏLA enrolled the highest percentage of low-income students in the nation, with 35.1 percent of its students qualifying for Pell Grants. 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Berkeley follows, with 32.4 percent; 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Irvine is third with 31.5 percent; 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis, fourth with 28.5 percent; 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ San Diego, fifth with 28.3 percent; and 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Santa Barbara, sixth with 24.8 percent. 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ analyses reveal that its other two undergraduate campuses also enroll high percentages of low-income students: 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Riverside (40.9 percent) and 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Santa Cruz (26.7 percent).
Chancellor search on
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ President Robert Dynes last week named a 15-member committee to advise him in the search for the next chancellor of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Santa Cruz. M.R.C. Greenwood, former chancellor of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏSC, became 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ'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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Berkeley chancellor Robert Berdahl, who in September announced his plans to step down this June.