UCI donors have big showing in OCBJ’s 2023 Giving List

UCI scholar signs letter of caution on artificial intelligence

Google Workspace Announcement

Google has announced the end of unlimited storage for Google Workspace. Effective July 1st, 2024, UCI’s unlimited storage will end. UCI’s Office of Information Technology will be rolling out a new tiered model to manage storage and costs going forward. OIT’s objective is to offer our campus community secure and cost-effective solutions for storing and preserving your data, all while maintaining your ability to work productively in service of the University’s teaching, research, and public service missions.

What Will Change?

• Account Limits: Every Google account will be placed into a storage tier. There will be options for those who require and qualify for a higher level of storage.

• Shared Drive Limits: Existing shared drives will also be placed into predefined storage tiers. The ability to create new shared drives will be available upon request if certain conditions are met.

• Account management: We will delete unlicensed accounts that are inactive for more than 180 days. Faculty, students, and staff are licensed users and will not be subject to account deletion for inactivity.

Storage tiers will be rolled out in phases throughout 2023, giving each group ample time to plan accordingly for the changes after being notified. Additional information regarding this project, FAQs, suggestions for freeing up storage and more can be found on the project page.

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2023 Community Lecture Series | Low Vision
Tuesday, 7 p.m. (sponsored by Gavin Herbert Eye Institute)

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The politics of grapes: A Cesar Chávez Day reflection

Americans of a certain age will remember a question that people often asked themselves in decades past: Should I buy a grape? This seemingly prosaic shopping dilemma has its origins in events that took place in California’s Central Valley in the mid-1960s, when farm workers led by United Farm Workers founder and organizer Cesar Chávez were on strike battling wage discrimination and exploitative working conditions in the fields. Boycotting their employers, they also urged the average citizen to stop buying grapes at the grocery store. In a recent essay commemorating Cesar Chávez Day, Salvador Zárate, an assistant professor of anthropology, looks back at this epic labor struggle.

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UCI provides this notification of a potential workplace COVID-19 exposure. Employees and subcontractors who were in these locations on the dates listed may have been exposed to the coronavirus. You may be entitled to various benefits under applicable federal and state laws and University-specific policies and agreements. The full notification is available on the UCI Forward site. If you have been identified as a close contact to a COVID-19 case, the UCI Contact Tracing Program will contact you and provide additional direction.

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Contact Tracing and Vaccine Navigation Services – assistance with COVID questions including vaccines and vaccine uploads or to report a case, available at contacttracing@uci.edu or 949-824-2300

Employee Experience Center – employee information on COVID benefits

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