CollegeBuys: Creating a Collaborative, Simple, and Easy Buying Experience
The Foundation for California Community Colleges’ CollegeBuys program saves millions of dollars for Community Colleges and other institutions each year through its software, furniture, equipment, and office supplies offers. CollegeBuys represents all 112 colleges and 72 districts as a group purchasing entity to secure best-value pricing for California’s Community Colleges and affiliated higher education institutions. During the last fiscal year, California Community Colleges realized nearly $15 million in aggregate savings through CollegeBuys. This session will provide information about CollegeBuys’ procurement ethos and methodologies, highlighting the program’s system-wide strengths and achievements.
Michel Tassetto, Andino Lab, UC San Francisco
Nucleic-acid Based Adaptive Immunity in Drosophila
The 6th Annual Bay Area Symposium on Viruses - May 27, 2016
http://bayviro.org/symposium/
Energy and Resources Group & Center For South Asia Studies at the University of California at Berkeley present The 20th Annual Lecture on Energy and the Environment by Sunita Narain (http://erg.berkeley.edu)
State senator Joe Simitian comments on the education, research, and economic value of UC Berkeley to California's future.
1:10 min. video
UC Berkeley Media Relations
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/
Arnold Bloom (UCD) - Science and Society 25: Global Climate Change
Mark Kubinec (UCB) - Chemistry 1A, 1B
David Pan (UCI) - Humanities 1A, 1B, 1C
http://groups.ischool.berkeley.edu/onlineeducation/
In this 2-part training, participants will be exposed to the "power definition" of racism and will observe a racially diverse group of people reflecting on the meaning of the definition, and the efficacy of using the definition to address racism in institutions. A rationale will be explored for developing a full analysis of racism, including understanding its historic and legal roots and contemporary functioning. Participants will be introduced to racism as a systemic and structural problem that shapes individual attitudes and actions in particular ways, impacts institutional norms and the ability of institutions to fully and appropriately serve all constituents, creates institutional mono-culture that makes it difficult for People of Color, immigrants and refugees to access and receive services in cultural sensitive and appropriate ways.
This first segment focuses on establishing racism as an ongoing problem for US society, on defining racism and creating a sense of urgency to address racism in meaningful ways and introduces the rationale for addressing racism in institutions specifically.