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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.”
Alan Schoenfeld awarded highest international distinction in math education
February 15, 2012: Alan Schoenfeld, a professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, has received the 2011 Felix Klein Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction.
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.
Pearson heading new international Literacy Research Panel
February 6, 2012: 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.
Occupy Cal stages ‘study-in’ at Kroeber Hall
January 20, 2012: Demonstrators occupied the anthropology library overnight Thursday, in a protest against curtailment of the facility’s hours and disinvestment in public higher education.
Indian Country comes to Berkeley (and vice versa)
January 20, 2012: Berkeley faculty, staff and alumni — and participants from as far away as Alaska — collaborate on a four-day, first-of-its-kind Native American Museum Studies Institute designed to give Indians the tools to “tell their own stories, and to tell the stories from their perspective.”
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life to open Jan. 22 
January 19, 2012: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, the latest addition to the city’s burgeoning downtown arts and culture district, is opening to the public on Sunday, Jan. 22.
Campus to hold math festival for 6-12 graders on Jan. 29
January 19, 2012: Young mathematicians — middle and high school students mainly, but younger kids too — are invited to the 2012 Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival at UC Berkeley’s Pauley Ballroom on Sunday, Jan. 29.
CDL virtual workshop on web archiving, Jan. 27
January 18, 2012: The California Digital Library will offer a two-hour, hands-on, online workshop, on Friday, Jan. 27, on how to archive websites — what to look for in sites to be archived, how to choose capture settings, and how to configure public archives.
CalPact offers computer, technical training to staff
January 13, 2012: Looking to sharpen your computer skills or learn the next new thing? A wide variety of workshops — many of them free for staff — are available through CalPact; the spring schedule is now posted.
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.
Berkeley 2011 — the year in pictures
December 22, 2011: Beyond the protests, the story — as always — is one of engagement, passion and perseverance in the face of challenges, whether institutional or personal.
New UC Berkeley financial-aid plan targets squeeze on middle-class students
December 14, 2011: Thousands of UC Berkeley undergraduates from middle-income families will get a helping hand from a new, far-reaching financial-aid plan hailed by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau as “the first program of this sort at any public university in the United States.”
UC Berkeley launches groundbreaking middle-class financial aid plan
December 14, 2011: UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced on Wednesday, Dec. 14, a unique financial aid program to help students from middle-income families better afford a UC Berkeley education.
Berkeley MCAP: Frequently Asked Questions
December 14, 2011: Answers to frequently asked questions about the new Berkeley Middle Class Access Plan (MCAP) to help middle-income families afford the cost of a UC Berkeley education.
A campus perspective: ‘Occupy’ and the crisis in higher education
December 13, 2011: Berkeley students and staff share their opinions on the state of public education and the recent campus protests.
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.
SAGE summit tackles graduate-student issues
December 6, 2011: The Berkeley Graduate Assembly hosted panel discussions on higher education with top UC administrators, leading faculty and state lawmakers.
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.
‘Routine’ police panel meeting gets ‘Occupy’d’
December 2, 2011: When the campus Police Review Board met Thursday, it was not to discuss the events of Nov. 9. That, however, was precisely what students and supporters wanted to talk about.
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.
