Gordon Rausser

Centeno, a campus junior double majoring in ecosystem, management and forestry and data science, said she hopes to support the eco-community at Berkeley through advancing existing environmental justice campaigns while also implementing new ones.

Amid the ebb and flow of private funding that occurs every year, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an increase in private donations to UC Berkeley to support the campus community.

Facebook posts touting #RausserCollegeIsNotMyCollege display the sentiment among some campus students against the UC Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources being named in honor of Gordon Rausser, former dean of the college, after he made a $50 million donation.

I am devastated that a school fostering the leaders of tomorrow is going to be named after someone who seems to represent the exact opposite.

UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources has been renamed the Rausser College of Natural Resources after receiving a donation of $50 million from Gordon Rausser, a former dean of the college.

Major goals for the campaign include campus housing for all freshmen, sophomores and first-year transfer students, 100 new tenure-track faculty positions and 300 new graduate fellowships.