Reports & Publications

Division of Equity & Inclusion Impact Report 2020-2021

Impact Report 2020-2021

This report tells the story of our campus efforts led by the Division of Equity & Inclusion. It tells a story of change over time, provides a map of how the division relates to other units on campus, and tells a story of how the broader national context influences equity and inclusion concerns on our campus. 

Updates to the most recent report on the status of the AAPI community at UC Berkeley that was published in 2001

Twenty Years Later: Asian American and Pacific Islanders at UC Berkeley

Presented by the Asian American and Pacific Islander Standing Committee (AAPISC), this report provides a preliminary (pre-COVID-19) demographic overview and assessment of AAPI community needs on campus and possible strategies to address identified issues of concern to date for AAPI undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and faculty.

My Experience Survey 2019 - Campus Findings and Recommendations

My Experience Survey 2019 - Campus Findings and Recommendations

The goal of the survey is to update our knowledge about how members of the UC Berkeley community experience the campus on a daily basis – with the intent of using the data to analyze and build on what is working and address what is not.

Chancellor's Task Force on Becoming an Hispanic Servicing Institution - Report to Chancellor Carol Christ

Chancellor's Task Force on Becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution - Report to Chancellor Carol Christ

In May 2019, Chancellor Carol Christ charged the Chancellor’s Task Force on Becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) with creating a roadmap for UC Berkeley to achieve HSI designation by 2027.  This report lays out the findings and recommendations of the more than 30-member task force. 

Strategic Review for the Division of Equity and Inclusion

Strengthening the Foundation, Sharpening the Edges & Leading the Community

Strategic Review for the Division of Equity and Inclusion. 

In the fall of the 2019/2020 academic year, University of California Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor Oscar Dubón, Jr., contacted the Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation in Atlanta, Georgia, to request a third-party overview of the Division of Equity & Inclusion (E&I). The review looked at the division’s structure, function, operational leadership, long-term strategy, and practices.

Blue Lab Final - three students in a lab.

STAR Guidebook - STEM Training and Resources

Explore UC Berkeley's STEM Opportunites.

IMPACT REPORT Expanding the Circle of Human Concern ADVANCING BELONGING SINCE 2012

Impact Report: Expanding the Circle of Human Concern

Impact report looking at the first seven years, first as the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and now as the Othering & Belonging Institute, as a center of research, advocacy, and change.

Maria Marta Zaputimeu (Ventureno Chumash) Basket

Native American collections in archives, libraries, and museums at the University of California, Berkeley

In this report, the relationships among Indigenous people, the State and the University of California, and Berkeley's Native American collections are discussed. Ethical and moral considerations that emerge from the history of Berkeley's research and collecting projects are an important aspect of the assessment.

Underground Scholars Initiative Language Guide - Language Guide for Communicating About Those Involved In The Carceral System

Underground Scholars Initiative Language Guide

Language Guide for Communicating About Those Involved in the Carceral System. We, the formerly incarcerated and system-impacted academics who identify as the Underground Scholars Initiative (USI) at the University of California, Berkeley, call on the media, students, and public to utilize the following terminology when discussing our population individually or collectively.

UC Accountability Report 2018 - Chapter Seven: Diversity

UC Accountability Report 2018 - Chapter Seven: Diversity

The 2018 UC Accountability Report provides the eleventh annual comprehensive assessment of the University's progress in meeting key teaching, research and public service goals across its 10 campuses. The data will inform the University's strategic planning, budgeting and performance management, as well as help the governing Board of Regents identify the most important policy issues facing UC.

Accessibility Governance Audit by the University of California Audit and Advisory Services. March 6, 2018

Accessibility Governance Audit | UC Audit And Advisory Services | March 6, 2018

Final report on the audit of accessibility governance in accordance with the Institute of Internal Auditors' Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing and the University of California Internal Audit Charter.

Aerial photograph that includes Sproul Plaza, the Campanile, and Barrows hall - Building Renaming Project Task Force - Summary and Recommendations, April 2017

Building Naming Project Task Force - Summary and Recommendations | April 2017 Report

In broad terms, the goals of the Task Force were to (1) understand current grievances over building naming, (2) review established policies on building naming, and (3) offer recommendations for addressing the current concerns over Barrows Hall and what we see as gaps in the current policies and practices around the naming of buildings.

UC Berkeley Basic Needs Report 2016-17

UC Berkeley Basic Needs Security Report 2016-17

A new report looking at the financial, food, and housing (basic needs) insecurity of students at UC Berkeley and what needs to be done to solve this systemic issue.

UC Berkeley Housing Survey Preliminary Finding, Fall 2017

Housing Survey Preliminary Findings - Fall 2017

From the Office of Planning & Analysis. This report looks at the housing insecurity of UC Berkeley students, the high cost of housing in the East Bay, and identifies nine potential sites for development.

UCOP Total Cost of Attendance Working Group Final Report, November 2017

Total Cost of Attendance Work Group Final Report - Nov. 2017

The UC Regent's policy, on undergraduate financial aid calls for making the cost of attendance for California undergraduates, which includes tuition, fees, and expenses for housing, food, educational materials, and transportation, affordable. The Total Cost of Attendance Working Group examined whether the Education Financing Model, as currently designed, is achieving the goal of the Regents policy or whether the EFM needs to be modified. The Working Group met six times over the course of seven months, invited outside speakers, reviewed data about UC and its competitors, and drew several conclusions outlined here.

Chicanx Latinx Task Force 2016-2017 Report

Chicanx Latinx Task Force 2016-2017 Report

In the spring of 2016, the Vice-Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion, Na’ilah Suad Nasir and the Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs, Harry Le Grande, appointed a special task force to examine the broad needs and experiences of the Chicanx Latinx community on the Berkeley campus.

The Problem of Othering: Towards Inclusiveness and Belonging | By john a. powell and Stephen Menendian | From the Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society |Summer 2016

The Problem of Othering: Towards Inclusiveness and Belonging | By john a. powell and Stephen Menendian | Summer 2016

From the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. The problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of “othering.” In a world beset by seemingly intractable and overwhelming challenges, virtually every global, national, and regional conflict is wrapped within or organized around one or more dimension of group-based difference. Othering undergirds territorial disputes, sectarian violence, military conflict, the spread of disease, hunger and food insecurity, and even climate change.

Catalysts for Change

Catalysts for Change - 2015

Learn more about how the Diversity Catalyst Model is creating positive change in the university.

UCOP Total Cost of Attendance Working Group Final Report, November 2017

Principles Against Intolerance - Final Report of the Regents Working Group | March 2016

IN September 2015, the Regents of the University of California announced the formation of a Working Group, to be chaired by Regent Eddie Island, and charged the Group with developing a statement reflecting the Board's discussion, as well as the principles of academic freedom and freedom of expression.

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Berkeley Diversity Snapshot

Learn about how UC Berkeley has made important progress over the past 10 years in the areas of increasing undergraduate, graduate, and faculty diversity, narrowing achievement gaps, and institutionalizing work to improve equity, inclusion, and diversity.

Students

Taskforce on Multicultural Student Development

Learn more about how the Taskforce on Multicultural Student Development answers questions about the needs of multicultural and multi-identity students at UC Berkeley.

Dreamers

Taskforce on Undocumented Members of the On-Campus Community

Learn about how the Taskforce on Undocumented Members of the On-campus Community identifies and articulates the issues and needs for undocumented members of the UC Berkeley on-campus community.

UCOP Total Cost of Attendance Working Group Final Report, November 2017

University of California Statement on Diversity

Read more about the University of California's commitment to achieving diversity among its student bodies and among its employees in race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, language, abilities/disabilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geographic region, and more.