OGD Initiatives

October 24, 2024

First Generation Low Income Graduate Student Initiative

Connect. Build Community. Thrive. The Office for Graduate Diversity’s Inclusive Excellence Hub has launched a collaborative partnership with FGLI Grads Group, a student organization that focuses on building connections, networking, and thriving opportunities that support first-generation and/or low-income graduate students at UC Berkeley. The Inclusive Excellence Hub is…
student first day on campus walking under sather gate.

March 24, 2024

Data Science for Social Justice Workshop

How to Apply Applications for DSSJ 2024 are closed. “Knowing that lifting up our own communities is what motivates us as diverse intellectuals and scholars, we centered the Workshop not just on data science, but what one can do with the data science to bring about justice or inadvertently cause…
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September 30, 2022

Neurodiversity Task Force

About the Task Force At Berkeley, we believe that we cannot build an inclusive learning environment if it is not sensitive and responsive to the needs of our neurodivergent graduate students. This Task Force is our first step in that effort. Building on presentations from national experts at the cutting…
campus with Bay in the background

February 2, 2022

Leadership in Graduate Diversity Awards

The Cynthia Ladd-Viti Leadership in Graduate Diversity Award and the Carla Trujillo Leadership in Graduate Diversity Award recognize and reward graduating doctoral or professional school students’ contributions to diversifying the academy during their graduate careers and beyond. Graduate Division established the two annual awards in 2021 as part of its…
Timonthy Vernon, a Fung Fellow, holding up a piece of acrylic to study

October 1, 2020

Graduate Diversity Pilot Program

Advancing Graduate Diversity At Cal The UC Berkeley Graduate Diversity Pilot Program provides funding to UC Berkeley departments to address issues of bias, foster healthy and respectful departmental climates, and advance equity, inclusion, and diversity. Established in July 2020 by the Graduate Division, along with other anti-racism and diversity initiatives,…

September 4, 2020

Anti-Racism Initiatives

A Committment In my Dean’s Message to our graduate student community, I promised that the Graduate Division would announce a set of concrete efforts to change the status quo and move us toward becoming the anti-racist, truly inclusive institution we need to be. Toward this goal,…