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April 30, 2018

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.

April 22, 2018

‘Questions of justice’: UC Berkeley environmental community reflects on inclusivity

When it comes to environmentalism, many UC Berkeley professors, students and staff members have reached a consensus: The green movement is too white.

April 13, 2018

Berkeley News
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 to be raped and nobody would care. Those were the things that were the Indian identity to me.”