Opinion: It’s time to transform our campus climate
A recent campus-climate survey, and the Feb. 6 symposium it inspired, point to the need for change if all on campus are to feel respected, says equity and inclusion's Elizabeth Halimah in a Daily Cal op-ed. She proposes a three-pronged strategy to improve the campus culture.
February 18, 2015
The campus climate at Berkeley needs improvement. That was a takeaway from a recent campuswide survey and of the Feb. 6 campus-climate symposium it helped inspire.
In an op-ed piece published in the Daily Californian, Elizabeth Halimah, assistant vice chancellor for equity and inclusion, reflects on how student speakers at the symposium “put the survey data into context,” making it “real and tangible” by describing campus incidents that left them feeling excluded, stereotyped or objectified.
What is to be done? Halimah details her proposal for a three-pronged strategy.
The climate survey has done its job of informing us, she writes. “It’s now up to up to us — collectively and individually — to transform UC Berkeley into a place where everyone is respected and valued.”
Read her op-ed on transforming the campus culture.