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Meet the women of CACSW

Originally formed in the fall 2008, the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women (CACSW) advises the chancellor on issues related to the status of women and promotes gender equity at UC Merced. The committee's charge:

Identifying and analyzing issues related to the status of women at UC Merced, including faculty, staff and students
Informing and educating campus community members about conditions that impact women within the university
Advising and making recommendations to the chancellor regarding policies and procedures that will improve conditions for women

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Only 10 years after it began, the Ph.D. program in UC Merced’s Department of Sociology made an impressive debut in U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings of graduate-level offerings. The...

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Adekunle “Kunle” Adewole isn’t a stranger to the spotlight, having grown up singing at family functions and performing in theater productions. He also has fervently watched “The Voice,” a singing...

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UC Merced has earned two 2025 Carnegie distinctions, the Student Access and Earnings Classification “Opportunity Colleges and Universities” and the Institutional Classification by the Carnegie...

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