On the steps of the state capital, Berkeley students and administrators together take an heartfelt stance on publicly funded higher education. Watch the video below. We also invite you to share this important message with your friends on Facebook.
Earth Island Institute, in collaboration with UC Berkeley and the City of Berkeley, is sponsoring Streets Alive!, a project to turn 60 utility boxes in downtown Berkeley into works of art. The Chancellor’s Community Partnership Fund has provided funding to place artistic treatments expressing UC Berkeley’s visions of sustainability on seven utility boxes on the edge of campus.
The Cal Alumni Association (CAA), in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, conducted an email survey in an effort to understand and better serve alumni. All UC Berkeley undergraduate degree holders for whom the University has email addresses were invited to participate. More than 14,000 alumni responded, reflecting on their education and experience at Cal, reporting on their careers and interests, and sharing insight on alumni programs and services.
The University of California, Berkeley, baseball program will continue to represent the campus as an Intercollegiate Athletics sport, now and into the future, as the result of a successful and ongoing fundraising effort on the part of alumni, former players, parents of current players and other team supporters, campus officials said today (Friday, April 8). Read more from Newscenter
CAA Executive Director Tuck Coop Announces Retirement
By CAA
April 5, 2011 5:19 PM
Today the Cal Alumni Association of the University of California, Berkeley announced that its executive director, R. Tucker “Tuck” Coop, will retire by the end of the calendar year. Coop spent eleven years at the Cal Alumni Association, first as director of CAA’s Lair of the Golden Bear, a summer camp in the Sierra Nevada, and for the past five years as the executive director. Read full press release »
In a recent interview at the State Capitol with Roxanne Makasdjian of UC Berkeley Media Relations, California State Sen. Joe Simitian commented on the immense value of UC Berkeley to California’s economy.
Check out unfolding coverage of how UC Berkeley is responding to the Japan earthquake and tsunami. You’ll find events to attend, comments from campus experts, updates from campus officials, and more. Read more
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Jasmina Vujic (center, holding microphone), UC Berkeley professor of nuclear engineering, addresses audience questions at a panel about Japan’s nuclear crisis. Aaron Walburg photo
The Cal Alumni Association has named its 2011 Alumnus of the Year: Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will be awarded the association’s highest honor in recognition of his scientific contributions, his commitment to addressing the problem of climate change, and his leadership in energy research and policy.
UC Berkeley Professor of Public Policy and former secretary of labor Robert Reich blogs on the need for investing in human capital.
Any day now, the Obama administration will announce $4.35 billion in extra federal funds for under-performing public schools. That’s fine, but relative to the financial squeeze all the nation’s public schools now face it’s a cruel joke.