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My name is Carol Christ, and as chancellor it is my great pleasure to welcome you all to the University of California, Berkeley, and to the next chapter of your lives....Read more about Carol Christ to new students: ‘Shape Berkeley, even as it shapes you’

To our new Golden Bears: Welcome! We hope your summers have been relaxing and rejuvenating, and that you’re excited to take on a new year of learning, discovery and personal growth at the very best public university in the world.

UC Berkeley is a fantastic place for many reasons, but one...Read more about Welcome new students

The 400^th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in North America will be observed at UC Berkeley, not only this month — in August 1619, the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia by ship — but during the entire 2019-2020 school year, starting with a daylong symposium Friday,...Read more about Berkeley to mark ‘400 Years of Resistance to Slavery and Injustice’

I started in May as the Director for the American Indian Graduate Program (located in Barrows Hall) and am a member of Kha Po Owinge/Santa Clara Pueblo, a graduate from Haskell Indian Nations University, and an American Indian Studies graduate from UCLA. ...Read more about My Goals for Serving the American Indian Graduate Community at Cal

Dear Members of the Berkeley campus community,

As you are likely aware, U.S. News and World Report has decided to “unrank” the campus for its 2019 rankings report because of Berkeley’s inadvertent misreporting of data related to alumni giving. To summarize: Berkeley, on our own...Read more about Recent news about U.S. News and World Report rankings

Dear E&I Colleagues,

Over the past two years that I have been the Vice Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion, I have repeatedly been inspired by the remarkable work that is taking place across campus to create a university where everyone belongs. This division is an engine for...Read more about E&I Infrastructure Assessment

After a competitive national search, UC Berkeley welcomed Patrick Naranjo as the new director of the American Indian Graduate Program in May.

Prior to coming to campus, Patrick served as the Resource Coordinator for the Intersection, Academic Multicultural Resource Center at the...Read more about UC Berkeley Welcomes Patrick Naranjo as AIGP Director

Welcome to a new year at Cal! I am excited and humbled to be starting this year as the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division.

Cal has long been a place of innovation, an institution that has produced knowledge that has, literally, changed the world. But I...Read more about My Goals for the Graduate Division

Dear Campus Community,

I write to you today to share some information which I hope will serve as a reminder to our community that there are people around us who carry with them different life experiences and identities, and with whom we have a shared humanity....Read more about Response to Campus Climate Issue