Willard Middle School recognized for inclusive education
Andrew Kuo/Senior Staff
Berkeley’s Willard Middle School has been selected by education researchers as a model of inclusive education. Read More…
Guilty until proven innocent
The Devil's Advocate
In October 2010, members of Yale’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity marched around campus chanting, “No means yes! Yes means anal!” The incident — and subsequent allegations that the Yale administration failed to respond adequately to the fraternity’s abhorrent behavior — provoked a national discussion about sexual violence and rape culture Read More…
Dialogue over division
CAMPUS ISSUES: Proposed changes to campus policies about public expression do not deal with the issue of a potential campus climate problem.
There is a fine line between protecting students from a threatening environment and restricting free speech. And as some pro-Israel and pro-Palestine students continue to clash at UC Berkeley, the campus faces an opportunity to productively address that dilemma. Recently, the campus administration announced a set of proposed policy changes Read More…
Pilot project granting Berkeley Adult School $75,000 ends
On June 30, a pilot project instituted in ten locations nationwide, including Berkeley, and designed to assist states in instituting and developing policies to support college and career readiness for low-skilled adults and learners, came to an end. The Policy to Performance initiative aims to assist states by advancing their Read More…
Cuts to public higher education funnel students into for-profit colleges, raise financial concerns
As the state’s public institutions come under the knife, California’s for-profit colleges have thrived, enrolling more students and benefiting from lax regulation — a trend that could place more students at financial risk. Continued cuts in state funding have forced some cash-strapped public schools to reduce class offerings and collapse Read More…
California freshmen decrease by 11.2 percent at UC Berkeley since 2006
If you were of the gambling persuasion in 2010, you could have come up to any two freshmen at UC Berkeley and bet that they came from another state. You would have been correct 29 percent of the time — not great odds — but based on biennial figures gathered Read More…
Report suggests colleges increase civic education
A recent government report argues that colleges should make civic learning a central part of higher education in order to increase participation in the political system and confront a critical moment for American democracy. The Jan. 10 report was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education in an effort to Read More…
Federal bill cuts Pell Grants for about 100,000 students nationwide
Pell Grants will be cut for an estimated 100,000 students nationwide as part of a nearly $1 trillion federal omnibus appropriations bill passed into law Friday.Amid a flurry of end-of-year Congressional activity, President Barack Obama signed a legislative compromise that tightens eligibility requirements for Pell Grant recipients while keeping the Read More…