SubscribeWith state budget negotiations in full swing, members of the UC Board of Regents are joining students in Sacramento today (May 15) to call on lawmakers to reinvest in public higher education. Regents will remain in the capital on Wednesday, holding their first board meeting there since 1993.
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Regents call on state to reinvest
May 15, 2012:
UC grad students take their research to Sacramento
March 15, 2012: A delegation of 20 UC graduate students and deans traveled to Sacramento March 14 to give lawmakers a message — that their research is of vital important not only to the future of the UC, but to the state and nation.
Dignitaries dedicate campus’s renovated Matsui Center 
March 14, 2012: Students, faculty and state dignitaries lauded the Robert T. Matsui Center’s work promoting public service, policy research and education during a special event highlighting recent renovations.
ChronoZoom: A deep dive into the history of everything 
March 14, 2012: Working with eight UC Berkeley students and with resources from Microsoft Research Connections, geologist Walter Alvarez has created a new piece of Web-based software that allows students, researchers and the general public to cruise through cosmic timelines. Called ChronoZoom, it could help students visualize the sweep of history.
Public invited to Doe Library’s centennial party
March 13, 2012: Doe Library is inviting the public to join its centennial celebrations at an open house with exhibits, authors, music, cupcakes and more.
Berkeley grad programs retain high marks in national rankings
March 13, 2012: In annual, national rankings of four graduate-level disciplines released by U.S. News & World Report March 13, UC Berkeley retained its overall rankings in engineering (3rd) and business (7th), moved up two places to 7th in law, and fell one place to 13th in education. Reputational rankings updated for specialty programs include a number-1 ranking in public-policy analysis.
Berkeley psychologists get into the heads of schoolchildren
March 8, 2012: UC Berkeley psychology professors Silvia Bunge and Stephen Hinshaw are scanning the brains of kids to learn how they learn. The findings may help educators and revolutionize classrooms.
UC’s affirmative action wars — the Atkinson years
March 7, 2012: “Entrepreneurial President,” a new UC Press book by Center for Studies in Higher Education researcher Patricia Palfrey, documents Richard Atkinson’s tenure as UC president startingg with the dawn of the post-affirmative-action age. He presided from 1995 to 2003.
Kirp nominated for educational excellence Bammy! award
February 29, 2012: Professor of Public Policy David Kirp has been nominated for a 2012 Bammy! award, given annually for “excellence in education” by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences International. Kirp was nominated in the Education Policy/Research category, for his passionate advocacy for children and early-childhood education. Public voting online ends April 30.
Raise your voice at ‘Sproul Plaza,’ the app
February 24, 2012: The campus is rolling out a new social-media app to foster dialogue between students and members of the administration, as well as faculty, staff and the campus community. In a new video, Vice Chancellor John Wilton begins the first conversation, about university finances.
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.
Professor of Greek history worries about his homeland’s future
February 10, 2012: 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.
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.”
