Bridges Multicultural Resource Center

From May 5-7, Bridges Multicultural Resource Center hosted its annual Transfer Weekend event for newly admitted transfer students of color.

To be a Hispanic-serving institution, or HSI, at least 25% of a not-for-profit institution’s full-time undergraduates must be Hispanic. Today, 21 of the 23 CSU campuses and six of the nine UC campuses with undergraduate education are HSIs. UC Berkeley, currently, is not.

INSIGHT into Diversity magazine announced Sept. 20 that the UC system received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award.

A proposal to temporarily designate space in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union for the Latinx Resource Center was voted down by the ASUC Student Union Board of Directors at their Jan. 15 meeting.

Underrepresented student groups and organizations, including the community of students with disabilities and Indigenous student organizations, have faced long-standing challenges in their fight for allocated spaces on campus. 

The ASUC Senate met Wednesday night for a short meeting, discussing Cal Dining initiatives and where the UC Berkeley International Office should be located.

Every year, ASUC officials are required to annually update their Advocacy Agenda, which provides the student body with the ASUC's advocacy goals for the current year.

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