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Dear Colleagues,

May is Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month - a celebration of the achievements and contributions from people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in the United States. There is incredible diversity among Asian Pacific Americans, including...Read more about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Representatives of the Hunger Free Campus Program asked for an increase in funding from the California Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance, aiming to expand programs that currently allow students with food insecurity to have access to food on campus.

Ruben Canedo, UC...Read more about UC Berkeley Basic Needs Security Committee lobbies in Sacramento for funding increase

Dear campus community,

I am delighted to share with you the report of the Free Speech Commission. As you’ll recall, I appointed the commission in the wake of events last fall which resulted...Read more about Free Speech Commission issues its findings

When Starbucks announced plans to conduct anti-bias training at its 8,000 outlets following the unprovoked arrests of two African-American customers in Philadelphia, UC Berkeley psychologist Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton was at once impressed and skeptical.

A veteran scholar of prejudice, stigma...Read more about A scholar’s take on Starbucks, anti-bias training and the Berkeley experiment

In 1868, UC Berkeley was founded on Ohlone land. Last week, 150 years later, the ASUC passed a resolution recognizing...Read more about On support for Native Americans, UC Berkeley must turn its words into actions

Chancellor Carol Christ released a preliminary draft early Wednesday morning for the new strategic plan of UC Berkeley — the first strategic plan created by the administration since 2002.

Among its multiple goals, the strategic plan endorses recommendations made...Read more about UC Berkeley releases strategic plan to boost housing, improve student experience

In the face of a $77 million campus deficit, an ongoing housing crisis and burgeoning student enrollment, Chancellor Carol Christ released an email Wednesday ...Read more about Chancellor Carol Christ unveils 10-year ‘strategic plan,’ aims to double campus housing

It is easy, Chancellor Carol Christ told a crowd of UC Berkeley staff, faculty and students on Tuesday, to have a “triumphalist narrative” of UC Berkeley, the world’s best public university.

But taking repeated victory laps can lead to disappointment when the inevitable realities of...Read more about Chancellor Carol Christ: ‘I like hard problems’

As a kid growing up on a Swinomish reservation in Washington state, Matika Wilbur thought it was inherently bad to be Native American.

“I remember thinking that being an Indian meant poverty,” she said. “Being an Indian meant that we were going to die younger. It meant that we were going...Read more about Photographer reveals complexities of Native American history, contemporary lives