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A combination of persisting hot-button issues and new initiatives shape UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ’s comprehensive agenda for this academic year.
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UC Berkeley faculty, staff, students, alumni, retired staff and community members met Monday to discuss the ongoing housing proposal for the Oxford Tract with College of Natural Resources Dean David Ackerly, who led the meeting.
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ASUC senators received updates about planned housing developments from Chancellor Carol Christ and voted to increase funds for an undocumented student scholarship at Wednesday night’s regular meeting.
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In light of climate change, failures in industrial agriculture, increased energy costs and demographic pressure, as well as multinational corporations’ increased control of the food system, we need to restore Berkeley’s public mission to prepare the new generation of scientists and practitioners with the necessary skills to tackle the challenges
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UC Berkeley students make up about a quarter of the total city population, says Berkeley City College history professor emeritus and former chair of social sciences Charles Wollenberg — a fact that makes student housing not only a campus issue, but a city one as well.
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The campus will pick one developer within the next month to oversee the development of all nine locations, according to campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof; in the following month, the campus will issue a request for proposal seeking interested firms.
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In the face of a $77 million campus deficit, an ongoing housing crisis and burgeoning student enrollment, Chancellor Carol Christ released an email Wednesday outlining a new strategic vision to guide the university over the course of the next decade.
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The panel discussion hosted at University Hall was organized by Berkeley City Councilmember Kate Harrison’s office to address and determine how to balance various community needs, namely housing and educational facilities.
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The Oxford Tract Organizing Coalition held an open meeting Tuesday evening that brought together about 30 students and community members to discuss the campus’s proposed development of the Oxford Tract into student housing.
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The ASUC Housing Commission opposed the proposed construction of student housing on People’s Park and resolved to recommend alternative construction sites in its meeting Friday afternoon.
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