Timeline & Highlights
2016
The seed grant, Transforming Graduate Admissions (TGA) to Increase Graduate Student Diversity: Crafting a Model to Effect Change, launched with cross-disciplinary faculty committees at UC Davis, UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC Riverside. The committees explored and queried the graduate admission process and related scholarship for over a year resulting in key findings.
2018
AMIGA leadership at each UC campus established faculty and graduate professional staff committees with faculty representation from three to four humanities and humanistic social sciences departments. Participants undertook the roles of faculty advisers and faculty development leads.
2018
Participating departments began to learn about and explore equitable and inclusive graduate admissions processes with support from their campus AMIGA committees.
2019
Graduate divisions reinforce the value of holistic review offering campus holistic review workshops broadly at both UCLA and UC Davis.
2020
Both UCLA and UC Davis will invite four additional graduate programs to participate in the AMIGA project.
2018
The Alliance for Multi-campus Inclusive Graduate Admissions (AMIGA) project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation beginning in January 2018, with lead campus, UC Davis and collaborators UCLA and Dr. Julie Posselt at USC.
2018
UCLA Graduate Division hosted the inaugural AMIGA Forum that focused on equity, diversity and inclusion; holistic review methods; professional development; and UC’s Inclusive Excellence.
2019
Faculty development leads and associate deans craft graduate admissions workshops for participating departments, supporting a community of practice among AMIGA participants.
2019
The report of two baseline assessments conducted by Dr. Julie Posselt is completed and recommendations considered for adoption in 2020.