Carol Christ

We write with a warm welcome to our new and returning Golden Bears as you settle into Berkeley and neighboring communities.

Let’s embrace all that the city of Berkeley has to offer and do our part to keep the Berkeley community healthy and vibrant. Here’s to a safe semester, and go Bears!

Wherever you may be living during this challenging moment, we hope you are excited for a new year of learning at the best public university in the world. 

UC Berkeley is a fantastic place for many reasons, but one of the things that brings so much vitality to our institution is its location within the city of Berkeley.

We hope your summers have been restful and restorative, and we’re thrilled to have you here in what former chancellor Clark Kerr once called the “City of Intellect.”

In my time as chancellor, I’ve been thinking a lot about the qualities that define our particular character and history. Intellectual courage is one of the most important

Yet, even as our efforts are having the desired results, external forces outside our control add an unfortunate element of uncertainty to our financial future.