Understanding UC Berkeley Students and their Experiences

“Thinking about in classrooms, how much are you perpetuating notions of a gender binary, what are you doing around pronouns…” [00:30:30]

“Student peer to peer is the highest level of exclusionary behavior. Large percentages of it were happening in classrooms. [We have to think about] what is the role of an instructor in managing that space and setting a tone and intervening when appropriate.” 44:00

“[Regarding] sexual violence and sexual harassment, if someone discloses something to you, you are obligated to report that. What are you doing knowing students have resources and what are the resources such as Path to Care.” 46:45

“The campus climate survey there are results for every department that are shared. This is going to be happening this fall with the My Experience survey. Every Unit will get results related to their unit.” 50:00

“The Fannie Lou Hamer Center wants to be in conversation with faculty about this is where students are gathering and recording their experiences, and this is what we want to see show up in the classrooms. So it's about how we deliberately and intentionally make those connections in classroom space and gathering spaces on campus to alter and try to correct [to] get inside that campus climate.” 54:30

UGSI work as peer mentors to provide representation. 1:00:00

Talks about a survey. Marginalized students do worse than other students in class. We want to think about often a student does not perform well in your class after a first midterm, and we have interventions talking about academics, however, often, we do not talk about nonacademic struggles, and although we may not be qualified, we can point students in the right way. Look for action items of what we can do in our courses and creating an inclusive space. 55:50"

"It is important we also keep in mind the distribution of experiences. [For example] if we have black students in our class this semester, we have to [think] if black students have the experience of poverty.” 1:01:50

“Our LGBTQ students are disproportionately URM students, disproportionately low-income students, disproportionately first-generation college students. They are not just the stereotype of the affluent white gay man. They are facing multiple marginalizations within not just across their sexual orientation and gender identity.” [00.31.40]

“One-third of students self-reported that their household income was under 50,000 dollars. One thing to note is that over a third of our students identified as having one or more disabilities. Predominantly emotional or mental health but following that its neurodevelopmental or cognitive physical disability or learning disabilities and then others. Only about a third of those students are receiving services.” [00:32:30]

“Over half of our students are not first-gen, not low-income, and did not come from a low API school.” 35:00 

“When we look at chicanx/latinx students, we see that 70% of them are first-gen, 64% are pell recipients, and ⅓ of them are low API. In fact, a quarter of them are all three.” 36:10

“When we look at Asian Pacific Islanders, we see East Asian students have a lot less experiences with first-gen, low income, low API. [South East Asian and Pacific Islander students have high intersections with first-gen, low income, low API experiences.] 37:30

“43% of our undergraduates in 2018 were food insecure. Higher rates for transfer students, URM, first-gen, and pell recipients.” 41:10

“4% of our undergraduates are homeless. The highest is for our African American and transfer students. [Take into consideration] there is a lot of underreporting around this issue.” 41:50

“Useful data on campus conversations event with Femi Ogundele” 53:05