Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

Founded as a collaboration between the African American Student Development and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, Black Lives at Cal was founded in fall 2021 to do research and archive the untold and unearthed stories of Black history here in Berkeley. 

A campus office building in the historic Anna Head complex caught on fire Monday, forcing students and staff to evacuate from the premises. 

Community-led campaign Saving Anna Head School is raising awareness of the dilapidated state of Anna Head School and calling on campus administrators to provide funds to help preserve it.

UC Berkeley has decided to reverse its original plans to disband the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, or ISSI, allowing the program to continue social justice research.

Students, faculty and alumni from UC Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, or ISSI, are campaigning against the campus’s decision to shutter the program amid the COVID-19 budget crisis, a move that they allege undermines the campus’s commitment to members of color.

Founded in March 2009 in the wake of former president Barack Obama’s inauguration and the formation of the tea party, the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, or CRWS, is a stand-alone research unit under the campus Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, or ISSI.

While the U.S. Department of Justice has announced it will begin phasing out its contracts with private prisons, California will continue contracting private prisons to house state-level inmates.

UC Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, or ISSI, has concluded the data-collecting portion of a worldwide study of six universities to chronicle the experiences of African alumni.