SSSJ Resource Page

Explore resource pages developed from events for the Staff as Students of Social Justice Program at UC Berkeley.  

SSSJ Audited Course Offerings

About the Audited Courses

Previously, SSSJ allowed an opportunity for cohorts of up to 25 campus staff per semester (from the Division of Undergraduate Education and beyond) to audit an American Cultures course and participate in discussions about timely and important topics.

Please take a moment to navigate this page to explore the Staff as Students of Social Justice Program's past course offerings.

Please email sssj@berkeley.edu if you have any questions.

SSSJ Projects, Presentations, and Audited Courses

About the Program

The 'Staff as Students of Social Justice' (SSSJ) Program is the first of its kind in the UC system, a cross-disciplinary curriculum centered in social and racial justice available for all staff and the many career paths they follow. Brought to life through the American Cultures Center, SSSJ is an important expression of the campus’s commitment to staff’s intellectual and professional development in issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice. This program provides a unique...

The University, Abolition, and Decolonial Theory and Praxis

Event Description

On March 13, 2023, the American Cultures Center and the Multicultural Community Center at UC Berkeley hosted this discussion focusing on the University as a site of contestation and contradiction. Starting from its settler colonial origins and logics, the speakers engage what it means to participate in decolonial and abolitionist work at the site of the university. What are its repressive logics and histories? How might we find cracks in its structure to organize?

The event was part of the Staff as Students of Social...

Aspirations of Material Anti-Racism: What's Next

About

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.

SSSJ offers a weekly seminar over Zoom, titled “Material Anti-Racisms,”...

Housing Rights, Spatial Justice Making

Event Description

On April 12th, 2023 the American Cultures Center and the Multicultural Community Center at UC Berkeley hosted, "Housing Rights, Spatial Justice Making", an event in the Staff as Students of Social Justice (SSSJ) public discussion series, "Aspirations of Material Anti-Racism: What's Next?"

The ongoing and seemingly unending shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic has both exposed and deepened the inequalities of...

Long Arc of Freedom Struggles

Event Description

On March 8, 2023 the American Cultures Center and the Multicultural Community Center at UC Berkeley hosted the first event in the Staff as Students of Social Justice (SSSJ) public discussion series, “Aspirations of Material Anti-Racism: What’s Next?

The Long Arc of Freedom Struggles is a discussion of Dan Berger’s latest publication,...