Walter Robinson Content / Walter Robinson Content for ٺƵ en IN MEMORIAM: Walter Robinson and Robbin Thorp /news/memoriam-walter-robinson-and-robbin-thorp <p>The campus community is invited to a memorial for Walter Robinson, Tuesday, Oct. 8, in <a href="http://campusmap.ucdavis.edu/?b=19">The Pavilion at the ARC</a> at the Activities and Recreation Center.</p> <p>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.</p> September 24, 2019 - 1:08pm Dave Jones /news/memoriam-walter-robinson-and-robbin-thorp IN MEMORIAM: Karen Roth, Chuck Fadley, Walter Robinson /news/memoriam-karen-roth-chuck-fadley-walter-robinson <p>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.</p> <p>She left ٺƵ 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.</p> August 27, 2019 - 12:41pm Dave Jones /news/memoriam-karen-roth-chuck-fadley-walter-robinson Walter Robinson: Emulating His Kindness /news/walter-robinson-emulating-his-kindness <p>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.”</p> <p>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.</p> June 17, 2019 - 11:05am Dave Jones /news/walter-robinson-emulating-his-kindness IN MEMORIAM: Walter Robinson, Enrollment Leader /news/memoriam-walter-robinson-enrollment-leader <p>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.</p> <p>Robinson had retired last September after seven years at ٺƵ and nearly 40 years in admissions and student services in higher education.</p> June 11, 2019 - 11:06am Dave Jones /news/memoriam-walter-robinson-enrollment-leader African drumming, dancing open ٺƵ student center /news/african-drumming-dancing-open-uc-davis-student-center <p>WHAT: ٺƵ 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