Joyous graduates, their friends and families filled Edwards Track Stadium in a swirl of blue and gold on Saturday, as they celebrated their graduation as UC Berkeley’s Class of 2012 and heard Google leader Eric Schmidt and Chancellor Robert Birgeneau send them on their way. With video and slideshow.
Memoirs by rocker Keith Richards and chef Gabrielle Hamilton share space with Stendhal’s “Charterhouse of Parma” and a history of the hip-hop generation on UC Berkeley’s 2012 Summer Reading List for incoming freshmen. The theme: Revolutions.
An acclaimed voice on race and ethnicity and a civil-liberties scholar, john a. powell has joined the faculty and will lead UC Berkeley’s Haas Diversity Research Center and hold the Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion.
With state budget negotiations in full swing, members of the UC Board of Regents joined students in Sacramento Tuesday and called on lawmakers to reinvest in public higher education. Regents remained in the capital on Wednesday, holding their first board meeting there since 1993.
Fourth-year student Alva Gardner aspires to work in the clothing industry — designing for people, women especially, whose bodies don’t fit the “norm.” Her accessible-fashion concepts include pants with pockets at the knees, where people in wheelchairs, like herself, “could actually use them.” American studies, psychology, art, disability, gender, sexuality and women’s studies are among her protean interests.
Regents clarify provisions for new retirement-plan tier
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