Stiles Hall

Campus organizations such as CAMP, Stiles Hall, Foster Education Project, Early Academic Outreach Program and Project SMILE work to expand educational equity at UC Berkeley and in the Bay Area.

Through one-on-one mentoring and other resources, the Experience Berkeley Program, run by the nonprofit Stile Halls, helps students apply to UC Berkeley. 

In 2013, UC Berkeley alumni, Danny Murillo and Steven Czifra, met on campus and shared their backgrounds on being formerly incarcerated and system impacted individuals. Together, Murillo and Czifra co-founded the Underground Scholars Initiative, or USI, a student-run organization for those who have been personally impacted by the U.S. criminal justice system.

The referendum draft addressed the lack of student housing in Berkeley and would have appeared on the 2018 spring ASUC ballot as a list of six demands for administrative action.

The UC Berkeley residence hall under construction along the block of Dana Street between Bancroft Way and Durant Street is on track to open in August 2018.

The building at 2400 Bancroft Way was once an old, ivy-covered, two-story building that blended in with surrounding shops, cafes and restaurants — that is, before it became a pit of dirt filled with construction equipment.

As the campus struggles to house an influx of students, UC Berkeley’s housing task force has drawn up nine potential locations for new student housing — including People’s Park, the site of the historic “Bloody Thursday” protest and clash in 1969.

Amid increasing demand from students, the UC Berkeley Food Pantry has officially partnered with the Alameda County Community Food Bank in order to provide greater access to food.

As the campus faces a chronic housing shortage, construction is set to begin Nov. 1 on the Bancroft Residence Hall at the corner of Bancroft Way and Dana Street that will house an estimated 775 students, replacing the current site of Stiles Hall.

The UC Board of Regents gathered Tuesday afternoon in Sacramento to discuss an ongoing UC-wide housing initiative and a recent state report on UC out-of-state enrollment.