UC Berkeley

The university established and funded the Becoming an Anti-Racist Campus Steering Committee, which is charged with "developing an action plan to ensure that our mission of research, teaching and service is fulfilled through antiracist frameworks."

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences said, "Faculty, students and postdocs engaged in the Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE) initiative, including creating one of the inclusivity tips recordings. Their deliverables were incorporated in the department’s strategic plan for diversity, equity, inclusion and access, and implementation was summarized in an AGU presentation." It also said, "We provide implicit bias training and cover the costs of antiracist reading material."

The B4 - Building Belonging @ Berkeley and Beyond virtual dialogue series strives to "[engage] in dialogue that challenges colonial and oppressive ideologies and practices by naming the forces that are oppressive and honoring critical forms of consciousness like mestiza consciousness (Anzaldúa, 1987), Indigenísta thought (Grande, 2004), and Black Feminist Thought (Hill-Collins, 1990)."

The Berkeley Equity Training Series is a "sequence of three-hour topical sessions...about how to be more culturally fluent and racially literate" and is available for staff employees.

The People & Culture Inclusive Leadership Academy is for managers or "anyone with direct reports & supervisory duties" and was created to "equip leaders with the content knowledge, leadership behaviors, and support to effectively lead our diverse staff community and create a culture of belonging and inclusion."

The School of Information is offering an "Antiracism in Technology" class.

The Business Process Management Office completed the Anti-Racist Faculty Academy and "Integrated anti-racist competencies into the core curriculum" of Berkeley Public health.

The university's Office for Faculty Equity & Welfare has a "Rubric for Assessing Candidate Contributions to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging." This rubric, according to the school, is "a template for search committees to use for assessing candidate contributions to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). It is a guide, and can be adapted to specific searches as appropriate given departmental or disciplinary expertise."

Chancellor Carol Crist committed to increased public programming and research into anti-racism and “anti-blackness.”

UC Berkeley has allotted $1.5 million to nine departmental grants to "improve departmental climates" via "diversity".

UC Berkeley decided to keep its "Institute for the Study of Societal Issues" as protestors argued the center's closure would undermine "UC Berkeley’s commitment to people of color."

UC Berkeley was seeking a professor of Critical Race Theory for its media department.

The African American Thriving Initiatives "is a comprehensive effort to address the underrepresentation of African American students, faculty, and staff at UC Berkeley, and to improve the climate for those who are here now and all who will join our community in the future." Among other goals, the initiative is aiming to "raise a $20 million endowed undergraduate scholarship fund to support African American undergraduates."

A research study was launched in the Spring of 2023 to "explore how American Cultures instructors conceptualize and practice anti-racism pedagogy." The goal of the study is to "enhance racial equity in teaching and learning on campus, provide important examples of anti-racist practice, as well as inform future resources for instructional support." Faculty participants will "receive $200 in course improvement grants."

The Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity is awarded to faculty who have made notable achievements in the fields of "diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice." Award winners receive "$10,000 placed into a departmental account to be used at the discretion of the recipient."

African American Initiative Scholarship is designated for first-year students and "is only available to students with African/Black ancestry." Scholarship recipients receive between $4000-$8000.

The Center for Race & Gender has "awarded $223,000 in grants" to student research projects covering the "intersections between race, gender, and social justice." Undergraduate students with approved research topics receive between $100-$750.

The University provides an extensive resource of "funding opportunities for women and minorities."

Innovation Grants are available to students, faculty, and staff "to encourage new and sustainable projects to promote equity, inclusion, and diversity" on campus. The grants are administered by the Division of Equity & Inclusion.

University of California President Michael Drake enacted "major changes" to campus Police Departments (UCPD) "across all 10-campuses to address the reality that systems of policing and law enforcement have not safeguarded people equally.” The changes include "shifting a number of on-campus operations away from UCPD." Reportedly, UC Berkeley’s Police Department "has already initiated many of these policy shifts."

The University's Police Department requires "principled policing" training which includes sessions on implicit bias.

UC Berkeley hosted a liverstreamed event, titled "Critical race theory and the 2020 election."

University posted a "mosaic" of interviews, detailing how faculty and staff viewed the role of race in the 2020 Election.

The university library offers Ibram X. Kendi's "Anti Racism Reader."

The Art History Library offers an "Art History: Social justice and anti-racism library resources" guide, which includes Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility" and Ibram X. Kendi's "How to Be an Antiracist."

The university offers "Antiracism Resources," including an educator's guide for Ibram X. Kendi's "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You" and "The 1619 Project Curriculum by The Pulitzer Center."

The university hosted Ibram X. Kendi at event about his book "How to be an Anti-Racist," as part of the "Haas Institute's Research to Impact Series, co-sponsorship with Northern California Grant Makers and Borealis Philantrophy."

On January 27, 2023, the school's News section published an article titled "Sharing, naming our sadness and grief about Tyre Nichols" and shared a message from University Officials who stated, "There is so much to say about the complexities of this situation. There is so much for us as individuals and communities to process, reflect on, and act on."

In early February 2023, Berkeley hosted "The Becoming An Anti-Racist Campus Symposium", which was an opportunity to "participate in collective learning, and conversations about UC Berkeley’s path to becoming an Anti-Racist campus."

UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management partnered with the Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning to create a "course redesign tool" called Advancing Inclusion and Anti-Racism in the College Classroom.

Berkeley has an Office for Faculty Equity & Welfare.

Administration will “work with the Black community to identify opportunities to leverage cultural symbols such as art and building names to communicate belonging for the Black community.”

On February 16, 2023, UC Berkeley announced its pursuit to become a federally-designated Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI). This pursuit "draws inspiration from and contributes momentum to" UC Berkeley’s ongoing efforts to obtain a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) federal designation, "as well as [its] efforts to become an anti-racist campus."

Berkeley School of Public Health's antiracism statement writes that "racism is a fundamental cause of health inequities and has been declared a public health crisis by over 200 cities and counties, 18 states, and numerous health and healthcare organizations across the country."

University officials commented that the Supreme Court ruling that "public and private universities cannot use race as a factor in admitting students, is regrettable." Berkeley stated that the decision "will reduce opportunities for people of color and thwart the nation's progress toward racial equality."

The University offers "campuswide commencements" including an "African American Studies Black Graduation," a "Pasifika Graduation Celebration," a "Pilipinx Graduation," and a "Lavender Graduation" among others.

A proposal was approved to "unname" the Philosophy Department's "Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture Hall," citing the "intensity" of the namesake's "racist and colonialist views." The building was temporarily renamed "Philosophy Hall."