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October 10, 2019

UCBWarnMe
URGENT - Classes Cancelled for Thursday (10/10) Due to Power Outage
PG&E has shut down power to the UC Berkeley campus. ALL classes are cancelled for Thursday (10/10/2019). Employees, please contact your managers for further direction.
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During the power outage, many campus areas and buildings may be dark, which could make navigating the campus more difficult and raise personal safety concerns. For that reason, we encourage members of the campus community to not make unnecessary trips to campus during the power outage. 

October 9, 2019

UCBWarnMe
UCBWarnMe: Power Outage Update

Campus Power Outage Information 

The planned PG&E power outage that will impact the core campus is expected to occur sometime this afternoon. We encourage the campus community to continue to prepare and to take safety precautions.

During the power outage many campus areas and buildings will be dark, which could make navigating the campus more difficult and raise personal safety concerns. For that reason, we encourage members of the campus community to not make unnecessary trips to campus during the power outage.

September 26, 2019

The Graduate Student Diversity Task Force

Dear friends and colleagues,

Over the course of the last year, in a series of messages to campus, I have described the values, objectives, and aspirations that are guiding our work to increase the diversity of our campus community. The excellence of the University depends on our ability to foster, embrace, and embody diversity of every kind, in the full sense of the word.

September 23, 2019

Chancellor's Office
A New Era of Excellence

Dear friends and colleagues,

As the academic year begins, I want to provide you with an update on the progress we are making with key campus initiatives. Thanks to strengthened financial foundations and extraordinary preparatory work by faculty, staff, and students, we are putting the pieces in place for a new era of excellence.  

September 19, 2019

Cal Message
Proposed Revised Presidential Policy on Native American Cultural Affiliation and Repatriation

Dear Colleagues,

The Office of the President invites comments on a proposed revised Presidential Policy on Native American Cultural Affiliation and Repatriation (“Revised Policy”). 

September 18, 2019

Berkeley News
UC President Janet Napolitano to step down next year

The University of California Office of the President issued the following message on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019:

University of California President Janet Napolitano announced today, Sept. 18, at the UC Board of Regents meeting that she will step down in August 2020 after seven years of leading California’s preeminent public university system.