New Leaders
Step Up for E&I
As Berkeley moves forward with its 10-year strategic plan for equity, inclusion, and diversity, a new team of high-profile business, academic, and community leaders will help ensure that Berkeley's vision becomes a reality. This advisory board held its inaugural meeting in October in which they discussed how to improve access, retention, and graduation rates for students. Members of the board include H. Michael Williams '82, former vice chairman of capital markets for Barclays Global Investors, Meg Conkey, anthropology professor emerita, and Alfredo Terrazas, senior assistant attorney general Office of the Attorney General. For a complete membership listing, click here.
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Job Fair for Students:
More than 600 Berkeley undergraduates attended a fall work-study fair sponsored by the Financial Aid Office, Career Center, Student Learning Center, Educational Opportunity Program, and others. Students had the chance to consider 400 work-study jobs for fall and spring semesters and attend workshops.
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Contact us:
UC Berkeley
Division of
Equity & Inclusion
102 California Hall
MC 1508
Berkeley, CA
94720-1508
510.642.8828
equity_inclusion@berkeley.edu
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| A Message from Vice Chancellor Basri
 This year has been marked by both challenge and opportunity for equity, inclusion, and diversity at UC Berkeley. As state funding to public education continues to diminish and needs mount, our programs are critical in promoting access and excellence across the campus. In this issue of e-news we share some of our successes -- from new classes that are opening minds to new faculty who are probing what it means to live in a multicultural nation to new opportunities for excellent students who face great adversity. It is with appreciation for your interest and involvement in E&I, that I wish you happy holidays and an extraordinary new year.
Please join me in making a year-end gift for programs that are pivotal for our Berkeley students and the communities we serve.
Vice Chancellor Basri sat down with writer Andrea Lampros to share some of his personal history and path to
UC Berkeley. Read the Q&A with VCEI Basri.
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New Class Engages Business Students
 In a provocative new American Cultures Engaged Scholarship course at the Haas School of Business, this fall some 43 undergraduates grappled with race and identity and how it plays out in the workplace "At the business school, we are producing path-bending leaders -- leaders who have the courage to challenge convention, embody confidence without attitude, and think beyond themselves," says Erika Walker, course instructor and director of undergraduate programs at Haas.
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Berkeley Diversity Data: A Click Away
UC Berkeley's new Diversity Data Dashboard makes it easy for the University community and public to find information and statistics about Cal's diversity demographics and campus climate -- promising to strengthen the work for equity, inclusion, and diversity. "The dashboard is like a one-stop shop for the most common questions about diversity at UC Berkeley," said Liz Halimah, E&I's chief of staff. Read more...
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Dream Act to Make Cal More Affordable for Undocumented Students
When the landmark California Dream Act passed the state assembly this year, undocumented immigrant students won access to private scholarships and eventually to state-funded grants that make college affordable. A passionate advocate for undocumented students, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau testified before the Senate Education Committee in Sacramento on behalf of the California Dream Act and commended Governor Jerry Brown on signing the bills, as well as Assemblyman Gil Cedillo for authoring them. Read more...
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Hero Stimulates Ideas on Diversity
and Democracy
 Considered a leading thinker on issues of race, ethnicity, and politics in the United States, Rodney Hero was drawn to UC Berkeley last year from the University of Notre Dame to lead the Diversity and Democracy
faculty research cluster in the Haas Diversity Research Center (HDRC). Hero joins other faculty leaders in an unparalleled national research endeavor across multiple disciplines that examines race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and more.
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