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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 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

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

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

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

On Saturday, the sounds of laughter, song and drums echoed out from the Recreational Sports Facility as some 175 Native Americans from across UC Berkeley and beyond gathered in a day of celebration at the campus’s 39th annual powwow.

Hosted by the Indigenous and Native Coalition’s (INC)...Read more about Powwow showcases vibrant, living Native American culture

SAN FRANCISCO — On the eve of the University of California’s 150th anniversary, UC President Janet Napolitano addressed a range of issues facing the UC, as well as the institution’s past, present and future, in an hourlong speech in San Francisco on Wednesday.

During the speech,...Read more about UC President Janet Napolitano talks past, present and future of UC during keynote address