As Sunday’s vote on austerity measures approaches, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of classics and a native of Greece, is apprehensive about conditions in his native land improving anytime soon.
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Cal Corps’ Megan Voorhees garners statewide honor
February 22, 2012: Megan Voorhees, director of Berkeley’s Cal Corps Public Service Center, has been named winner of the 2012 Richard E. Cone Award. The California Campus Compact, a statewide professional association, bestows the honor annually on an individual who has made important contributions to partnerships between communities and institutions of higher education.
New from CSHE: A critical look at for-profit ed
February 22, 2012: The rise of for-profit higher education amounts to a policy abdication in the United States, as public universities have proven unable to keep up with growing demand, according to a new paper published by professor John Douglass published by Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education.
Through engineering prof, girls meet ‘the science of better’
February 16, 2012: Rhonda Righter, professor of industrial engineering, is tackling a new assignment: serving as a volunteer role model to 35 middle-school girls. During a recent presentation at Oakland’s American Indian Public Charter School, she talked about her field: “Industrial engineering is all about making things better,” Righter said. “We’re like detectives who solve puzzles.”
With a foothold at Berkeley, ‘engaged scholarship’ goes where it’s needed 
February 8, 2012: Urban forester Lara Roman, a Berkeley grad student, is conducting multi-year research designed to help a Sacramento tree-planting program maximize cooling shade for the area’s hot summers. “Engaged scholarship” like Roman’s, increasingly popular with students, is part of the campus’s DNA. New forms of institutional support are helping it flourish.
Berkeley’s writing requirement? Bold vision, endless revision
January 31, 2012: College Writing Programs, or CWP, has come a long way from its 19th-century origins, when students were schooled in Subject A, “Oral and Written Expression.” The 21st-century Berkeley program offers more than 20 courses in everything from public speaking, creative nonfiction and travel writing to new media.
Haas to launch UC Summer Institute for undergrads from Historically Black Colleges
January 25, 2012:
The Institute for Emerging Managers and Leaders, or SIEML, will take place annually at one of six UC business and management schools.
Lab picks Richmond Field Station for a second campus
January 23, 2012: The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, bursting at the seams of its home next door to UC Berkeley, announced Monday that it has picked the University of California’s bayside Richmond Field Station as the site of its second campus. The lab expansion will have benefits for Berkeley, Chancellor Birgeneau says.
Occupy Cal library protest ends
January 22, 2012:
Campus officials and faculty leaders reached an agreement Saturday evening with Occupy Cal protesters who had been conducting a ‘study-in’ at the Anthropology Library in Kroeber Hall.
Free UC Berkeley Extension courses for eligible staff
January 11, 2012:
To support Operational Excellence, the Center for Organizational and Workforce Effectiveness (COrWE), in cooperation with UC Berkeley Extension, is providing free tuition at the time of enrollment for selected Extension courses.
Honoring outstanding faculty mentors: Nominations due Feb. 3
January 2, 2012:
Each year, members of the campus faculty are honored for exemplary, beyond-the-call-of-duty mentoring of graduate students. Nominations for two such honors — the Graduate Division’s Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards and the Graduate Assembly’s Faculty Mentor Award — are due Feb. 3, 2012.
Instructors flex their ‘digital imaginations,’ and practice tweeting, in new-media seminar
December 8, 2011: For the past semester, 21 campus faculty and staff have been studying the intellectual, historical and cultural roots of today’s “new media,” and using those 21st-century tools to reflect and interact. Applications will be accepted soon for the spring-semester offering of “Awakening the Digital Imagination.”
Taxation, citizenship, protest and the future of UC 
December 7, 2011: Three themes — taxation, citizenship and protest — were explored at the Dec. 6 Campus Forum on the Future of Public Universities, the second in a series of public conversations sponsored by campus deans. Many called for UC to form alliances with other institutions affected by public disinvestment.
School of Public Health launches first online degree program
December 5, 2011: UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health has launched the campus’s first online degree program in an effort to address the nation’s shortage of trained public health professionals. Students enrolled in the new program, to begin Spring 2012, will be able to earn a master of public health (M.P.H.) degree by completing 85 percent of their coursework online and attending three on-campus sessions totaling 15 days over the first two years.
KALW features I School prof’s teaching with Wikipedia 
December 2, 2011: When he discovered a hole in Wikipedia’s coverage of cyber law, I School faculty member Brian Carver encouraged his students to step up to the task as volunteer Wikieditors. A J School reporter features Carver in her “Crosscurrents” radio segment on universities’ engagement with the online encyclopedia.
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