Increasing undergraduate nonresident enrollment at UC Berkeley may decrease campus racial and socioeconomic diversity, according to research released this month. Read More…
Dear UC President Mark Yudof, We understand that you are coming to a final decision on the chancellor search at UC Berkeley.As a group of UC Berkeley faculty who remain unconditionally committed to achieving racial diversity on the campus, we want to reaffirm our expectation that each of the final Read More…
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced the creation of a Taskforce on Multicultural Student Development yesterday, the result of protests at Eshleman Hall last November. Read More…
UC Berkeley launched an online survey in an effort to gauge the quality of the campus climate on Tuesday.
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Five students chained themselves to Eshleman Hall Tuesday night to protest the consolidation of some Multicultural Student Development offices at UC Berkeley and what they felt was a lack of communication between students and campus administrators. Read More…
An estimated six students began occupying Eshleman Hall Tuesday afternoon as part of an awareness campaign regarding the campus’s multicultural retention center and minority enrollment. Read More…
UC administrators have been struggling to enroll an ethnically diverse student body for the past 15 years, raising concerns that in the long run, such a policy will also affect the diversity of the university’s faculty body. Read More…
What began as a demonstration in favor of affirmative action Friday afternoon became an occupation of UC Berkeley’s Office of the Registrar.At noon, demonstrators from the activist group BAMN and the Defend Affirmative Action Party gave speeches on the steps of Sproul Plaza, demanding that campus minority enrollment double and Read More…
A UC Berkeley production in the department of theater, dance and performance Studies has elicited negative responses from the campus American Indian community, triggering discussions about the play’s content. Campus alumnus John Fisher’s play “Ishi: The Last of the Yahi,” which ran from March 2 to March 11, sparked outcry Read More…
Almost four decades ago, the UC Berkeley Professional Development Program took over a room in Stephens Hall, armed with a mission of encouraging disadvantaged students to pursue academic degrees. Nowadays, the program’s roughly 250 members come and go through the mural-adorned halls, glad to have found a home away from Read More…
