On April 7th, 2023, UC Berkeley was designated by the US Department of Education as an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution * (AANAPISI).
This historic designation reflects our institutional commitment to deepening our capacity to serve AA & PI student communities as part of our broader commitment to serving all students on our campus.
Our federal designation as an AANAPISI institution insists on our collective reimagining and realization of academic, co- curricular, and research opportunities for our AA & PI undergraduate and graduate students in our collective pursuit of greater educational access and equity at Berkeley. This means that we must strive to become an AA & PI Thriving institution – i.e. an institution that is committed to processes of cultural and structural transformations in service to the needs of not only our AA & PI undergraduate and graduate student communities, but also our AA & PI staff, faculty, and alumni as well.