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May 2, 2018

The Daily Californian
UC Berkeley Basic Needs Security Committee lobbies in Sacramento for funding increase

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.

April 30, 2018

Berkeley News
A scholar’s take on Starbucks, anti-bias training and the Berkeley experiment

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 and race relations, Mendoza-Denton is keenly attuned to under-the-radar discrimination that runs counter to the stated values of seemingly progressive individuals and institutions.

The Daily Californian
On support for Native Americans, UC Berkeley must turn its words into actions

In 1868, UC Berkeley was founded on Ohlone land. Last week, 150 years later, the ASUC passed a resolution recognizing the campus’s role in this tragic history.

April 25, 2018

The Daily Californian
Chancellor Carol Christ unveils 10-year ‘strategic plan,’ aims to double campus housing

In the face of a $77 million campus deficit, an ongoing housing crisis and burgeoning student enrollment, Chancellor Carol Christ released an email Wednesday outlining a new strategic vision to guide UC Berkeley over the course of the next decade.

The Daily Californian
UC Berkeley releases strategic plan to boost housing, improve student experience

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 by the Housing Master Plan Task Force in January 2017. The task force advised increasing the number of undergraduates and graduates housed by the campus to 50 percent and 25 percent, respectively.

April 24, 2018

Berkeley News
Chancellor Carol Christ: ‘I like hard problems’

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 tuition hikes, housing costs, budget deficits and funding shortfalls consume so much time and energy.