Spring 2024

Graduate Tribute: Make a gift, honor your graduating student

February 19, 2024

If you’re the parent of a student finishing up their Berkeley education, the day is almost here — your student is graduating!

To honor this momentous occasion, the campus invites parents of soon-to-be graduates to take part in the Graduate Tribute, a new giving program created to support the Cal Parents Fund. Parents can honor their graduate’s achievements by making a gift to the fund, which supports vital student services such as the Student Learning Center, Berkeley Connect, and the Career Center — which is available to Cal students even...

Help students achieve their dreams through Berkeley Crowdfunding!

February 19, 2024

Race car engineers, triathlon athletes, multicultural performers, and more make up our 33 crowdfunding campaigns, racing to meet their goal by the end of February! Your support would be the best "Calentine" for these hard-working students this season - learn more at crowdfund.berkeley.edu.

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/

People's Park Housing

February 19, 2024
By Public Affairs

Developed over the course of more than five years of extensive planning, public engagement, and rigorous environmental review, UC Berkeley's plans for People's Park incorporate four fundamental objectives.

The project also reflects the university's long-standing efforts to support those in need and its commitment to providing better solutions for unhoused people than sleeping outdoors in unsafe and unsanitary conditions...

https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/

My Financial Coaching Experience

February 19, 2024
By Preslee Vanlandingham

Financial Guidance for Berkeley Students

Newly independent and don’t know where to begin in terms of managing your finances? Interested in planning ahead financially? For all UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students, there’s a resource on campus that can make this a lot easier and help you feel more confident about your finances. The Center for Financial Wellness is your one-stop shop for financial management tools. Their peer coaches are trained to help you create a spending plan, access financial resources, and talk through practical steps to increase your...

https://life.berkeley.edu/my-financial-coaching-experience

Finding Housing: What to Expect

February 19, 2024
By Melissa Mora-Gonzalez

Searching for Off-Campus Housing


I lived my first year in the residence halls as a freshman and am glad I did. Most students live on campus for at least a year, if not more. But now I’m venturing into off-campus housing and am here to share what I’ve learned from my own searching and from consulting with fellow UC Berkeley students. Below you’ll find links to helpful resources and answers to some housing search questions you may have...

https://life.berkeley.edu/finding-housing-what-to-expect/

Golden Bears on Holiday

February 19, 2024
By Reva Gokhale

A Successful Break

This winter, students met up with friends, did charity work with family, and spent time taking care of themselves. From traveling all over the world to relaxing at home with family and friends, Golden Bears spent this winter break being productive in the best way: by making new memories and doing the things they love...

https://life.berkeley.edu/winter-travels-cal-style/

Winter Commencement 2023 lessons: Embrace Berkeley's values, pursue audacious goals

February 19, 2024

Some 1,000 students participated in Saturday’s event; Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna was the keynote speaker.

Jade Amor-Shannan Johnson and Cerenity Bush stood under the bright winter sun on Saturday, proudly waiting to process into UC Berkeley’s Haas Pavilion and wearing personalized caps bedecked in glitter, illustrations and motivating phrases.

Johnson’s cap said, “The marathon continues,” and Bush’s quoted Maya Angelou: “Success is loving life and daring to live it.”

The wording suited the two friends, who were among...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/12/18/winter-commencement-2023-lessons-embrace-be…

Take the first Black history tour at UC Berkeley

February 19, 2024
By Anne Brice

The self-guided Black history tour at UC Berkeley begins at Memorial Stadium, where student Walter Gordon was a star of the football team more than 100 years ago. It then weaves through campus, making stops at 13 more locations, each highlighting an important person or landmark related to Black history.

There's Ida Louise Jackson Graduate House, named in honor of the first African American woman to teach in Oakland public schools. Next is Barbara Christian Hall, named for the first Black woman to be granted tenure at Berkeley. Other stops include Wheeler Hall and Sproul Plaza, where...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/02/01/black-history-tour-at-uc-berkeley

The Yardi Scholarship Program: Bringing technology to the service of democracy

February 19, 2024
By Elizabeth Costello

The Yardi Scholarship Program: Bringing technology to the service of democracy

Created with a generous gift from software engineer and founder of Yardi Systems Anant Yardi ’69, the Yardi Scholarship Program encourages top-tier Berkeley students — particularly those who are the first in their families to attend college, including transfer students — to cultivate an interest in leveraging technology to advance democratic principles.

The Yardi Scholarship Program, offered through the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters & Science and the...

https://light.berkeley.edu/o/the-yardi-scholarship-program-bringing-technology-t…

The Vivian Osborne Marsh Scholarship: Celebrating a legacy of excellence

February 19, 2024
By Elizabeth Costello

“This place has given us so much, and we want to carry on the legacy of Vivian Osborne Marsh by demonstrating a stronger impact to the African American student community, in perpetuity.” — Andrea Holloway-Lowe ’92

More than 100 years ago, Vivian Osborne Marsh founded Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Kappa Chapter at UC Berkeley, and from 1935 to 1939 served as national president of this historically Black sorority. An educator and leader who dedicated her life to lifting up her community, Marsh earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology from...

https://light.berkeley.edu/o/the-vivian-osborne-marsh-scholarship-celebrating-a-…