Black Recruitment and Retention Center

Black organizations and campus have made historic progress in rebuilding, representing and strengthening their community despite proposition 209.

At a mostly Asian and white institution such as UC Berkeley, the scarcity of Black students compounds pressures, leading to mental health struggles.

Gabrielle Sharp, a UC Berkeley sophomore, is running independently for ASUC Senate on a platform focused on reinvesting in the community, bridging the divide between campus and city residents and serving the Queer & Trans People of Color, or QTPOC, community. 

The Berkeley Forum's spring 2021 lineup has a diverse selection of speakers who are not only from a wide range of disciplines and ethnic backgrounds but are also unique within their given field.

UC Berkeley’s Black student leaders and organizers have long advocated for increased recruitment, academic support and a more welcoming campus climate for Black students, but recent national unrest has reinvigorated the campus Black Lives Matter movement's calls for change.

Tucked in the corner of the Hearst Field Annex building is the Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center, one of the various resources for the Black community at UC Berkeley. As a part of UC Berkeley's African American Student Development, the center serves the academic, social, cultural and political needs of the campus Black community.

While the proportion of transfer students and freshman admits from underrepresented groups remained at 38 percent systemwide, UC Berkeley’s percentage increased.

The African American Student Development office, together with ASUC SUPERB Productions, hosted a vibrant music scene and vibrant collective of students for an incredibly successful evening.

Public outcry over the perceived racially insensitive nature of a campus fraternity’s Halloween decoration has prompted efforts in the ASUC Senate to increase awareness of racial and cultural issues on campus.