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Dear Colleagues,

I’m pleased to introduce Lasana Hotep, UC Berkeley's first-ever Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. Under the direction of both Equity & Inclusion and People & Culture, Lasana will be leading campuswide efforts to create a...Read more about Welcome UC Berkeley's first-ever Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

Dear campus community:

We are very much relieved by today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Trump administration failed to provide a reasoned explanation for ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

The decision, which stems from...Read more about U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding DACA program

I have been profoundly affected by what recent events have revealed about the state of race relations in our country and the indisputable evidence those events provide of police brutality. I hear the pain, anger, exhaustion, and calls for accountability that members of our community...Read more about Reimagining Public Safety

Dear Faculty, Staff, Graduate Student Instructors, and Graduate Student Researchers,

We are writing to announce plans for fall semester, in which we are asking our community to resume limited on-campus research activities and engage in hybrid teaching with some amount of in-...Read more about Fall Semester Planning

Chancellor Carol Christ, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos, Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Catherine P. Koshland, and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Stephen C. Sutton sent the following message to undergraduate students on Wednesday:

We are...Read more about UC Berkeley announces plans for fall semester

Chancellor Carol Christ; Paul Alivisatos, executive vice chancellor and provost; Lisa García Bedolla, vice provost for graduate studies and dean of the graduate division; and Stephen C. Sutton, vice chancellor for student affairs; sent the following message to all UC Berkeley graduate...Read more about UC Berkeley fall 2020: Information for graduate students

Dear Colleagues,

We are writing to share with you that Juneteenth (June 19, 2020) will be a day of remembrance for UC Berkeley. This...Read more about Juneteenth 2020 - Day of Remembrance

Dear Campus Community,

In the coming months, although the public health crisis will continue to evolve, the campus will begin gradually increasing on-campus operations, consistent with orders issued by public health authorities, and in close coordination with them. We are writing today to...Read more about Continued work from home and exceptions

The University of California Board of Regents today (June 15) unanimously endorsed Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5 (ACA 5) as well as the repeal of Proposition 209, which banned...Read more about UC Board of Regents unanimously endorses ACA 5, repeal of Prop. 209

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for sharing your opinions in our second coronavirus Employee Morale Survey. Even more of you participated compared to our first survey, and we wanted to share the results of how you’re feeling. We want to acknowledge that it is, at a minimum...Read more about Employee Morale Survey #2 Follow-Up