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Deep Engagement & Partnership: Supporting Advisors on the AC Requirement

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This section offers advisors an in-depth understanding of the AC requirement’s historical roots, significance, and contemporary applications. Please explore our curated recordings, slides, and expansive explanations, to help you can explore the complex layers that make AC a vital part of students’ political and social education, including:

Historical & Contextual Foundations: The AC Center has made available past recorded presentations tracing the AC requirement’s origins, from student activism, transnational social and racial justice movements, and its evolution as a core...

What to Do If ICE Comes to Campus: Rights, Recommendations, and Resources

Background

The ongoing national conversation about immigration status lies across a bipartisan political landscape, but statements made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Thomas Homan indicate that enforcement will be significantly increased and specifically target California.

On February 26, 2018, in response to the increased and specifically targeted immigration enforcement in California, across the U.C. system broadly and at U.C. Berkeley specifically, procedures and recommendations were shared on best preparing to support all members of our...

What We Want, What We Need, What We Have: Knowing Our Rights in Uncertain Times

Event Description

This session featured a panel of campus experts who are actively engaged with the theoretical, personal and legal dimensions of federal actions on immigration as they impact our campus, contextualizing them within broader work for belonging, academic freedom and social justice. Speakers explored what protections exist, where and how to advocate, and how to mobilize around our values. Drawing on the insights and resources shared during the What to Do If ICE Comes to Campus event, we created this page to continue building and expanding resources...

How can districts and schools successfully implement Ethnic Studies courses?

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On April 2nd, 2024, the High School Ethnic Studies Initiative held an online discussion for Ethnic Studies educators on successfully implementing Ethnic Studies courses at the high school and district level. This event featured a discussion between Ethnic Studies educator Artnelson Concordia and UC Berkeley Academic Coordinator Ricky Aguirre, and a Q&A segment for high school Ethnic Studies instructors.

Artnelson is a veteran teacher who helped develop the San Francisco Unified School District’s Ethnic...

2023 Teaching in Summer Workshop

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On May 19th, The American Cultures Center and Summer Sessions facilitated a 'Teaching in Summer' workshop for all summer sessions instructors. This session focused on effective summer course planning strategies, understanding unique summer session challenges and opportunities, policy updates, and insights on teaching racial and economic justice in diverse classrooms. This year’s presenters welcome you to contact them for additional discussion or queries about the workshop topics:

Alex Cole, Assistant Director of Summer...

2022 Teaching in Summer Workshop

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On May 3rd, The American Cultures Center, The Center for Teaching & Learning(link is external), and Summer Sessions(link is external) hosted a 'Teaching in Summer,' a workshop for all summer sessions instructors focusing on some of the best approaches to teaching in the intensive six-, eight- or ten-week...

2024 Teaching in Summer Workshop

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Every year, the American Cultures coordinates a 'Teaching in Summer' workshop for all Summer Sessions instructors. Our Center partners with key campus partners to equip instructors with knowledge of the unique challenges and opportunities of summer teaching, important policy updates, and effective summer course planning strategies. This year, in collaboration with Berkeley Summer Sessions, and the Center for Teaching and Learning, the workshop also offered...

Spring 2023 Cohort

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The 'Staff as Students of Social Justice' (SSSJ) Program(link is external)(link is external) is an important expression of the campus’s commitment to staff’s intellectual and professional development, especially around issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice. This program is a keystone effort of the university’s work towards...

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