The 2013 campus climate survey indicated that there are many areas on campus that could be improved for all students to feel included and supported. As part of the division of Equity & Inclusion, EJCE and the intersectional nature of the work each office does can work to help address many of those issues, but not at current staffing and funding.
Additionally, the opportunity to grow the reach of EJCE and the offerings, will allow greater education and opportunities for cross-cultural experiences to help prepare students for jobs in a growing global marketplace.
Expanding Education Across Campus
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Providing education for all students through diversity and multicultural workshops
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Creating Brave Spaces where people of all identities can learn from one another through dialogue and mutual education, and build community where everyone is respected and actively strives to understand how to respect others.
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Efforts that result from the Big C referendum passing will help support the university’s efforts to cultivate global leaders with skills to work with diverse groups of people.
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Addressing 2013 campus climate survey results which indicated that 1 in 4 students experience exclusion, with peers being the largest source for that exclusion.
- Big C will provide resources to create and enhance existing opportunities for students to expand and engage one another, students with different background, and strengthen our campus community. Particularly, the Big C will provide increased capacity to address Sexual and Dating Violence prevention work which has a wide campus impact
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Result: Providing a mode for the university to have accountability for addressing those results
Student Centered Benefits - for both graduate and undergraduate students
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Providing jobs for undergraduate and graduate students through internships and special projects
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Increasing income opportunities in engaged community work for graduate and undergraduate students
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Bridging classroom learning to real-world workplace experience that prepares students for post-graduate job opportunities
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Leadership Development opportunities through internships - the intersectional nature of our areas as well as the student centered focus of our programming allows students to learn to design and implement programs and projects that are collaborative → which can be valuable work experience and leadership development
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Result: Global leaders with skills to work with diverse groups of people
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Providing research opportunities for graduate students interested in higher education and multicultural work through the increase in bandwidth of respective offices
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Result: Increasing the opportunities for students to have intellectual and academic experiences at Berkeley that are engaged with other members of the Berkeley community
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Increasing funding opportunities for student-initiated diversity, multicultural, and equity projects & programs for both graduate and undergraduate students
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Result: ability for students to create and lead programs that are relevant to their current interests and direct needs
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Creating and expanding programs for students
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Result: Increasing the number and kinds of mentorship, academic support, and mental health support that are offered from each office