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U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has rescinded 72 guidelines that outlined rights for disabled students, raising concerns within the UC Berkeley community about waning protections for students with disabilities.

Among the policies that were rescinded Oct. 2 were recommendations by the...Read more about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinds 72 guidance documents for rights of disabled students

SACRAMENTO — Californians who do not identify as male or female will have a third gender option on driver’s licenses and birth certificates under a bill Gov. Jerry Brown signed Sunday.

SB179 makes California the first state in the country to offer the third gender marker on birth...Read more about Nonbinary designation OKd for California Drivers Licenses

Oct 12, 2017 | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Multicultural Community Center, MLK Student Union Building, UC Berkeley
Location is wheelchair accessible

The Center for Race & Gender and the Multicultural Community Center present…

Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza discussed the current and future goals of BLM within the current political climate at the UC Berkeley International House on Thursday.

In her talk to a crowd of about 100 people, Garza touched on a range of topics from Black feminism to the...Read more about Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza speaks at UC Berkeley

Campus administrators, staff and students joined together Thursday to reevaluate the role of free speech online and on campus, marking 53 years since UC Berkeley’s 1964 Free Speech Movement took place.

At the “Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media” event in Sutardja Dai Hall,...Read more about ‘Engage the issue’: UC Berkeley marks 53rd anniversary of Free Speech Movement in all-day event

In the days and weeks leading up to his planned Free Speech Week at the University of California at Berkeley, Milo Yiannopoulos talked a big game about the murderer’s row of conservative speakers he had assembled. But last week Chancellor Carol Christ was coming to doubt that he...Read more about Berkeley’s Leader Saw Hints That ‘Free Speech Week’ Was a Stunt. Here’s Why She Planned for It Anyway.

Although the threatened right-wing invasion devolved into the “...Read more about Campus must be defended against hostile private interests

In a strike at President Trump’s call for more deportations, California lawmakers...Read more about What happens if Gov. Brown signs the 'sanctuary state' bill?

The alt-right is laying a trap for Berkeley students during next week’s planned “Free Speech Week,” a writer with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alabama-based anti-hate group, told students and administrators Tuesday night.

...Read more about Expert’s advice: Don’t engage with the alt-right on campus

A Presentation by Ryan Lenz of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

When:...Read more about Southern Poverty Law Center Workshop