Equity & Inclusion

Dear campus community,

Today, on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, we pause to give thanks for all that we have. It is also a time to reflect on the needs of our friends, neighbors, and colleagues.

As noted in messages to the campus following the election, we have particular concern for those members of our community who feel the loss of a sense of safety and security, including students who are concerned about their legal status and continued ability to take advantage of all that Berkeley, and our country, have to offer.

Students twice mounted the steps of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus — protest's hallowed ground — Wednesday to declare out loud their outrage about the election of Donald Trump as president.

First came thousands of Berkeley High School students chanting "not our president." After marching through downtown Berkeley and up Bancroft Way to Sproul Plaza, students used a bullhorn to speak their energetic opposition to the Republican president-elect, and then headed up to the Campanile.

BERKELEY, Calif. — Although the University of California, Berkeley, has some of the best resources in the country for undocumented students like me — in the form of financial and legal aid, for example — it's been a tense couple of years, magnified by the anti-immigration build-a-wall language of Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign.

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The new $60 million, 10-year initiative will support, train, and network leaders committed to anti-black racism working together across disciplines and borders to advance more inclusive societies