Dean of School of Social Welfare announces plan to step down next year
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.
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$3.4M grant to fund new Latino Center of Excellence
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.
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Nothing about us, without us
“This school likes to pride itself on being the most accessible campus on earth, and that’s … it’s just not true.” Lisa Albertson is a transfer student at UC Berkeley but unlike most of her undergraduate peers, she has been a student on campus since the year 2009. She is
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Increased supplemental tuition fee implemented for at least 6 campus graduate programs
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.
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School of Social Welfare dean proposes schoolwide actions to improve diversity
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.
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Graduate students voice concerns about professor’s comments on Black Lives Matter movement
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.
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Take Back the Night protests sexual violence
UC Berkeley Gender Equity Resource Center espouses sexual respect for all in campus event
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.
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New dean named to campus School of Social Welfare
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.
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