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As a Person of Interest on the UC Berkeley campus, senior Mari Rosas speaks up for people whose identities don’t always fit into society’s neat categories. It’s a territory this student of anthropology and gender and women’s studies knows well and explores as a person, activist and filmmaker.
Tag: equity and inclusion
First campus-climate survey prizewinners announced
March 22, 2013:
Equity and Inclusion has announced the first winners of incentive prizes — $100 Cal 1 cards, Cal Performances tickets, RSF memberships — for Berkeley participants in the UC Climate Survey. UCOP prizes include a $10,000 undergrad scholarship. The survey remains open; students, faculty and staff who participate are eligible for more prizes.
Puente Project, long a campus friend, finds a new home at Berkeley
September 26, 2012:
Like old friends who end up getting married, the 30-year-old college-access-building Puente Project has become a part of UC Berkeley’s Center for Educational Partnerships. The move enhances the synergy of both entities, which work to help underserved students succeed in four-year colleges and universities.
Acclaimed scholar john a. powell leads Haas Diversity Research Center
May 15, 2012:
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.
Genaro Padilla honored for outstanding diversity-related contributions
March 9, 2012:
In honor of efforts over several decades to foster the success of underrepresented students, Professor Genaro Padilla has been awarded the Leon Henkin Citation for Distinguished Service.
Berkeley and UC diversity champion wins national recognition
March 9, 2012:
For her work toward increasing faculty diversity at UC Berkeley and running UC’s major pipeline bringing new scholars into tenure-track academic posts, Sheila O’Rourke is winning a national leadership award. O’Rourke is Berkeley’s director of Faculty and Postdoctoral Diversity Initiatives.
‘Justice will prevail,’ chancellor tells campus diversity conference
February 3, 2012:
UC Berkeley hosted a two-day event, the 2012 California Diversity and Leadership Conference, Feb. 2 and 3, in a push for multicultural equity and inclusion.
CAL Prep’s first graduates — all of them — get into college
May 6, 2011:
CAL Prep, the academic charter high school that Berkeley co-founded five years ago, is about to celebrate the graduation of its first class of seniors — and the fact that all 17 won acceptance to at least one four-year college.
