Help empower our graduate students to make a difference
This helps students be their best. It also helps them balance their personal lives and academic aspirations.Your gift gives us the means to deliver an inclusive, world-class experience to graduate students, so they can make a difference at Berkeley and beyond.
There are many ways you can support Berkeley’s graduate community.
- Inclusive Excellence Hub for Graduate Diversity
- Graduate Student Experience Fund
- Graduate Fellowship & Support Fund
If you’d like to talk through various giving options, contact the Graduate Division at [email protected].
Inclusive Excellence Hub for Graduate Diversity
Known for its diversity in students and thinking, UC Berkeley is a place where the brightest minds come together for transformational change. The Inclusive Excellence Hub is the first campus-wide community hub exclusively dedicated to increasing academic excellence through diversity and belonging by housing transformational programs that lead the nation in inclusivity.
The Hub is a vibrant, inclusive space where students historically underrepresented in higher education can find camaraderie and build multi-disciplinary networks of their peers through innovative programming. In this space, programs focused on strengthening diversity are located next to in-house faculty advisors and mentors who can help guide students through their academic journey.
The Hub attracts highly qualified underrepresented prospective graduate and undergraduate students as they tour campus, becoming a highly visible example of Berkeley’s mission as a beacon of opportunity for promising students from every background.
Programming and Support at the Hub:
- Diversity & Community Fellows
- Path to the Professoriate
- Dissertation Writing Workshops
- Resident Faculty Mentors of Color
- Transfer Student Research Intro
- Building Naming: A rare campus naming opportunity exists for this vibrant diversity programming hub with support at the $15,000,000 level if approved by campus.
- Inclusive Program Naming: Programming investments will provide the intellectual basis to maintain the innovative scaffolding happening at the Hub. Investments of $1,000,000 – $5,000,000 will endow and provide program naming opportunities for supporting our underrepresented student community.
- Inclusive Excellence Program Supporter: Invest in the intellectual capital that promotes the success for our underrepresented students.
Please contact us at [email protected] to learn more about naming opportunities and other ways to support the Hub.
Graduate Student Experience Fund
Gifts made toward the Graduate Student Experience Fund will assist students with health education and wellness, housing, parenting support, community engagement, and professional development.
Professional Development – Your support for our Graduate Professional Development work:
- helps students recognize potential career paths, set and achieve professional development goals; and
- helps students build skills vital to careers in education, industry, government, and more.
Graduate Student Life – Your support for Graduate Student life:
- provides students with work-life balance — to counter student self-reported impediments to wellness, including social and financial supports for parenting and family life; and
- helps students form community connections — social and cultural activities that enhance psychological and physical well-being.
Graduate Fellowship & Support Fund
Graduate students are at the heart of Berkeley’s excellence — they drive original research, the discovery of new knowledge, and inspire and mentor our undergraduates. Fellowships attract the very best and brightest students — fueling dynamic partnerships between faculty and students that are fundamental to innovative teaching and research.
Faculty at Berkeley, so many of whom are world-renowned in their fields, often cite the high caliber of our graduate students as the top factor contributing to their work satisfaction. Building greater support for graduate fellowships by significantly increasing funding across all disciplines is one of Berkeley’s highest philanthropic priorities. Gifts to the Graduate Fellowship & Support Fund are critical to Berkeley’s legacy, and our future.
