Chancellor Christ announces Graduate Student Diversity Task Force
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To increase diversity among campus graduate students, Chancellor Christ announced the implementation of the Graduate Student Diversity Task Force.
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2nd Signature Initiatives town hall meeting discusses equity, health, democracy at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley community members met in Sibley Auditorium on Tuesday afternoon in continuation of the April 15 Signature Initiatives town hall meeting, where the audience further directed questions and feedback to three of six remaining initiative teams — equality, health and democracy.
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Lobbyist Heather Podesta talks career path, Donald Trump era at campus event
Heather Podesta, founder and CEO of bipartisan government relations firm Invariant, spoke about entering politics out of college, working as a lobbyist and the Donald Trump era at an event in Eshleman Hall on Thursday night.
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Campus alumni endow scholarship for undocumented students
Husband and wife and campus alumni, José Luis Bedolla and Lisa García Bedolla, have endowed the Miguel and Elvira Bedolla Scholarship to support undocumented students at UC Berkeley.
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Report reveals racial disparity among CA political participants
Despite widespread political activity throughout the state in the aftermath of this year’s elections, Californians are not as politically engaged as they should be, according to a Feb. 2 report coauthored by Lisa Garcia Bedolla, a campus chancellor’s professor of political science.
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Latina/o Faculty Association asks administration to support Undocumented Student Program
The campus Latina/o Faculty Association sent a letter Monday to Chancellor Nicholas Dirks calling for the administration to better support undocumented students in the aftermath of the presidential election.
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Underrepresented-minority voters brought to polls by face time, not Facebook, study says
Researchers studying how to best bring underrepresented-minority voters to the polls have found that new technologies such as texting and social media are not as effective as more personal forms of outreach.
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Affirmative Action: Student diversity impacted by race-neutral admissions policy
The UC contends that Proposition 209, passed in November 1996, that prohibits preferential treatment by the state in public employment, education or contracting based on race, ethnicity or gender, has caused a decline of underrepresented minorities in the UC system.
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Panel discusses implications of DREAM Act
A panel at the Free Speech Movement Cafe Wednesday evening discussed the history and legislation surrounding the California DREAM Act, focusing on the experience of undocumented immigrants in California. Panelists included experts on immigration law and Latino policy, including Lisa Garcia Bedolla, chair at the UC Berkeley Center for Latino
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