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We're taking you on a tour of the
Real Places of UCD.
Our next stop, the Native American
Academic Student Success Center.
Hi. Welcome to the next episode of
Real Places at UCD.
This is the Native American Academic
Student Success Center, also known
as the Nest. We're here located
at the University House right
across the way from Olson
Hall and right behind EOP, right
next to the quad.
Yeah, my name is
Kayley Walker.
I am an undergraduate, a fifth year
here at UC Davis.
I am a double major in Native
American studies and Communications.
I was a former worker here, a
student assistant at
the Native Center. But now
currently, I am a peer advisor for
the NAS program.
And I'm Jazmine Chavez.
I'm a student assistant here at the
Nest.
I've been working here for three
years. I'm a fourth year Native
American studies major and
Chicano Studies major.
My tribal affiliations are Chippewa
cree from the Rocky Point
Reservation in Montana.
And my tribal
affiliations are
Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians.
Let's go.
So as soon as students walk
in, they come here to the check in
area where students can swipe
their IDs or type in their ID
numbers here.
And they will be greeted by a
student assistant sitting at the
front desk and also Adriana Martin.
And over here we have our two
bulletin boards where we like to
promote events
and resources that the Native Center
has, such as one for Waffle
Wednesday, Study Jam meetings,
Beading Circle and holiday events
for Halloween.
We also like to promote our
resources such as internship and
career advising, veggie
drop off and writings support
as well as camp
resources.
And this is our computer room area
students can come here and
work on the computers.
They have access and they just work
on their assignments or just kind of
take notes.
This is additional quiet space for
students to study and get
their work done.
We also have cubbies here for
students to store their stuff, like
when they're on the go, if they
don't want to bring all their materials
and just kind of want to leave their
stuff somewhere safe.
We also have
our sewing machines and our
laminator for like various projects
that we do here at the Nest.
I believe spring quarter
we made ribbon skirts and
a previous quarter we made mask
during quarantine.
So that's kind of the few projects
that we do here at the Nest.
And here we have our dedicated
quiet library study room.
You can reserve this room for things
such as meetings and
online courses.
And in the back, we have our
our library of books that former
and current students have dropped
off, such as
such novels and Native
American studies books.
But then over here, we also
have our books such
as calculus and chemistry
and genetic analysis.
And students are more than welcome
to check out any of those books in
the library.
Here we have a rack of clothes that
students can take for free, you
know, help themselves.
And this is our community
room where students come to kind
of decompress from the day and just
relax. Or if they want to continue
studying here, but like, you
know, associate,
socialize with their peers.
We also have like a lot of like
really cool stuff playing in the
background.
We have snacks provided for students
if they want to like have a quick
thing to go
in there and then our rocket here.
Yeah this is my favorite place
standing out here.
But here we have our rocket from
our
AISES group, which is the American
Indian Science and Engineering
Society.
It's won two national competitions
for rocketry.
It's awesome.
And then here is our
directors, Michel's office, where
students can use your QR code
to like make a schedule or schedule
an appointment with Michelle
if they need any advising.
Hi, I'm Michelle Villegas-Frazier.
Welcome and hope to see you soon.
Visit the center.
Thanks.
And then this is our associate
director, Will's office.
And you can also schedule an
appointment with him using the QR
code.
I am Will Sampson, I'm an associate director here at the Nest and I look
forward to seeing you around here sometime.
And here we have our
our graduate alumni
research that we like to promote
here in this hallway.
They do such things such as
physics and biology.
And then this is our counselor,
Tracy Thomas's office, students
can use
counseling, services with her, and
they just have to make an
appointment with her.
And then they can be here.
And here we have our kitchen, which
is where we build events
such as Waffle Wednesday, Veggie Up
and other food related events
which are real community builders.
You can see here we just got our
veggie drop off for the week
and sometimes we have things such as
zucchini and eggplant, but
other times we have things like
jujube fruits, which I never had
before, but they're totally good.
And in the corner we have.
In the corner, we have our
coffee station, which is where we
can come here for a little pick me
up throughout the day.
After a long day, of classes or
right before. We have our
microwave where you can get your
breakfast at the fridge
so you can hide your food away from
other people who will steal it.
And this is my favorite room,
the conference room.
I usually spend my time in here
most.
This is also additional space for
students to kind of like study.
And we also host like small classes.
And a lot of our student
organization organizations meet
here such as NASU,
AICES and IHA.
Well, it was great having you here,
but unfortunately, I've got a
pancake that needs eating.
So you guys will have to
show me the door.
Thank you for coming to the space.
And you're more than welcome to come
visit us here at the Nest.
We have a lot of major projects
here that students are more than
welcome to come and partake in.
Thank you.