Jeffrey Edleson

After seven years as dean of the campus School of Social Welfare, Jeffrey Edleson announced last week that he will step down after this academic year.

UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare received a $3.4 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration — an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services — to fund its new Latino Center of Excellence, a campus press release announced Friday.

UC Berkeley has instituted supplemental tuition for at least six graduate programs over the last five years at a time when the base tuition fee throughout the UC system is frozen.

About 100 faculty members and graduate students at the campus School of Social Welfare met Tuesday to review an action plan that was proposed by the dean and aims to improve integration of more diversity and social justice curriculum into the program.

Graduate students at the School of Social Welfare held a teach-in Tuesday to voice concerns about comments made by a professor in relation to the Black Lives Matter movement.

The first Take Back the Night rally was organized as a response to this, emerging from women’s desire to make the streets a safe place at night. Today, the movement takes place all over the world as a protest to end all forms of sexual violence and create safe communities and respectful relationships.

UC Berkeley alumnus, former University of Minnesota faculty member, and domestic violence expert Jeffrey Edleson begins his term as dean of campus School of Social Welfare in August.