The Thriving Initiatives work to cultivate opportunities and resources to transform UC Berkeley into a place where every member of our community feels a deep sense of belonging.
For all of us to thrive, we must actively interrupt inequity and harm at all levels and in all corners of the university, including the reconfiguration of our structures, processes, and policies to be more holistic and equitable. The ability to thrive is a shared responsibility of all members of our campus community.
Across the Division of Equity and Inclusion (E&I), thriving is rooted in the work we lead to transform UC Berkeley’s ecosystem of services, opportunities, and experiences for students, staff, faculty, and community members. If we want to truly live into our long-standing tradition of excellence in higher education, every campus team, unit, organization, and individual must center thriving approaches.
To thrive, we must promote equity-based, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive values and approaches as throughlines in everything we do (i.e. recruitment, admissions, teaching, learning, advising, research, and professional development, etc). As a campus of colleagues and co-learners, our strategic frameworks, methodologies, and actions must celebrate variations of experience, the existence of multiple definitions of success, and self determined embodiments of excellence that exist for individuals and within/across communities.
Thriving Priorities
- Enroll, retain, and graduate increased rates of first generation, low income, historically underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students
- Make UC Berkeley people (student, staff, faculty, community) ready
- Champion community-centered, liberatory, and engaged research and pedagogy
- Drive transformative campus culture change
