Stamping out STEM stereotypes
March 13, 2014
History of commitment to gender equity in science, technology, engineering and math is showing up in increased numbers of female faculty.
‘Downton Abbey’ and diversity
February 4, 2014
Professor, administrator is a scholar of British history, fan of the TV series and award-winning champion of equity in faculty hiring
How UC serves low-income students
January 29, 2014
UC educates more low-income and first-generation college-going students than any other top caliber research university.
One student’s rise to the top
January 28, 2014
First-generation collegian seizes opportunities to move into graduate research in agriculture.
UC leaders join President Obama at higher ed summit
January 16, 2014
President Napolitano, chancellors from Berkeley, Merced and San Diego join university leaders from across the nation to brainstorm ways how higher education can better serve less-advantaged students.
Fellowship program attracts diverse postdocs
November 7, 2013
New perspectives drive academic research in this extension of UC's President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
President urges students to aim for college
October 30, 2013
University president spreads the message about access, affordability and college aspiration to Oakland students eyeing higher education.
A prescription for increasing diversity
January 23, 2013
UC medical schools make progress in attracting underrepresented minority students.
A campus voice for the undocumented
September 18, 2012
Meng So's life experiences inform his work as UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Program coordinator, the only position of its kind at any university in the country.
Business school program targets underrepresented students
January 24, 2012
Talented minority college students need access to great career-building opportunities, and California needs those students. That was the message University of California representatives, elected officials and African American community leaders delivered Tuesday (Jan. 24) as they unveiled a landmark partnership between UC and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).