News Archive

When I speak with groups both on and off campus, I am frequently asked the question, “What exactly does a chancellor do?” To answer that question in a somewhat granular way, I will begin an occasional blog, talking about what I’ve done in my recent work and about the issues on my mind.

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2017/10/04/reflections-on-las-vegas-and-resour...

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2017/09/28/a-time-to-reflect-and-move-forward-...

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/fall-2017-bugged/opening...

We stand with our undocumented students

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/23/chancellor-christ-free-speech-is-who...

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/15/chancellor-christ-back-to-school-mes...

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/14/a-message-from-the-chancellor-on-cha...

A message from Chancellor Carol Christ

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/06/27/a-budget-update-from-chancellor-desi...

We can still be the institution that represents the genuine democratization of knowledge and opportunity. Even in this new and sometimes daunting world, we can still be utopians, “together, here, now,” as I said when I first arrived here four years ago.

The University of California, Berkeley, and the community around it have been symbols of free speech for more than 50 years. We still celebrate the legacy of Mario Savio and others who fought in the 1960s to ensure that the First Amendment be honored on campus.

But today Berkeley is facing extraordinary challenges to living up to this legacy. The campus has become a magnet for groups who seek to use the site of the birth of the Free Speech Movement as a staging ground for violence and disruption.

UC Berkeley has joined a coalition of the country’s top colleges and universities in the American Talent Initiative, a Bloomberg Philanthropies and Aspen Institute-led effort that met for the first time last week. Our collective goal is to educate 50,000 more low- to moderate-income students by 2025.

Lessons from a shameful chapter of our nation’s past take on renewed relevance in our current political moment as fear, racism, xenophobia and jingoism again endanger the civil rights of friends and neighbors, while simultaneously betraying our country’s bedrock values.