We are deeply concerned by the recent executive order that restricts the ability of our students, faculty, staff, and other members of the UC community from certain countries from being able to enter or return to the United States.
Protesters succeeded in shutting down an appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos, the puerile 33-year-old Breitbart writer, at UC Davis Friday night. This was one of his stops on his “Dangerous Faggot” college campus tour. Yiannopoulos is scheduled to talk at UC Berkeley on February 1st....Read more about Breitbart provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is shouted down at UC Davis
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson stressed Tuesday that federal authorities should not use private information of so-called Dreamers to deport them — an implicit warning to President-elect Donald Trump, who has pledged to unravel executive actions that have granted key benefits to more...Read more about Don't use Dreamer data for deportations
In the latest data, Latinos recorded the strongest gains, with 41,575 applications to UC’s nine undergraduate campuses. They made up 37.2% of total applicants, followed by Asian Americans at 29.1%, whites at 23.7% and African Americans at 6.2%.
Top colleges are already diverse in some ways, of course. They enroll students of every ethnicity, from around the world. Yet those otherwise diverse student bodies remain distressingly affluent. Worst of all, they remain affluent even though many poor and middle-class students could thrive at...Read more about Make Colleges Diverse - Op Ed
Still reeling from the Oakland warehouse fire that claimed 36 lives — including five people with ties to UC Berkeley — the campus community gathered today for a solemn vigil at Zellerbach Hall intended, in the words of Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, “to mourn, remember and celebrate those...Read more about Vigil for fire victims marks ‘loss to the world,’ times five
"He was probably the most memorable undergraduate student I've had in my years of teaching," said Luba Golburt, an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, recalling the young man who was among 36 people to die in Friday night's horrific warehouse fire in...Read more about Griffin Madden recalled as gifted and ‘luminous’ by UC Berkeley professors
