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UC Berkeley professor of sociology and South and Southeast Asian studies Raka Ray was appointed Friday as the next dean of the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters and Science.
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UC Berkeley ranked fifth on Forbes’ 2019 list of best-value colleges, again surpassing both Stanford University and Harvard University.
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Chancellor Carol Christ released a statement in a campuswide email Wednesday drawing attention to recent reports of negative comments directed at Chinese American faculty and researchers connected to Chinese companies and institutions.
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In a campus-wide email sent Tuesday, Chancellor Carol Christ introduced UC Berkeley’s latest strategic plan, which will invest heavily in the student experience, make new commitments within the campus’ research and academic spheres and foster a more welcoming and inclusive community for people of all backgrounds.
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U.S. News has been ranking universities within the United States for more than three decades, according to U.S. News chief data strategist Robert Morse.
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The campus announced Monday that Carla Hesse, executive dean of the College of Letters & Sciences, or L&S, and dean of Social Sciences, will be stepping down from both positions at the end of next summer.
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AnnaLee Saxenian, who has served as dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Information for more than a decade, announced her resignation Monday.
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This year, UCLA took the sole No. 1 title in the ranking for the first time. UC Berkeley’s tie with UCLA in last year’s ranking was the first time in almost 20 years that UC Berkeley did not achieve the sole title of No. 1 public university in the U.S.
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In the spring of 2017, law school Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said it was brought to his attention that John Boalt — after whom the building wing is named because of a donation from his wife, Elizabeth Boalt — was a leading advocate of the Chinese exclusion policy. In his text “The Chinese Question,” John Boalt presented negative views about Black people, Native Americans and Chinese people, according to a document released Monday by Chemerinsky.
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According to the new Forbes America’s Top Colleges 2018 list, UC Berkeley ranked as the No. 1 public school in the nation.
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