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The Free Speech Movement ( FSM) was a massive, long-lasting student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. [1] The Movement was informally under the central leadership of Berkeley graduate student Mario Savio. [2] Other student leaders include Jack Weinberg, Tom ...
From 1949 to 1950, students and teaching assistants at UC Berkeley rallied against the anti-communist loyalty oath that professors were forced to take at the university. Until the Berkeley riots, these demonstrations were the largest student protests witnessed in the United States.
The University of California, Berkeley ( UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) [10] [11] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of ...
The Berkeley student camp-in was called by a coalition of groups, including the Black Student Union, the Jewish Voice for Peace at UC Berkeley and the Indigenous Graduate Student Association.
Housing at the University of California, Berkeley, includes student housing facilities run by the office of Residential and Student Service Programs (RSSP). Housing is also offered by off-campus entities such as fraternities and sororities and the Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC).
Berkeley Unified School District is the target of a federal civil rights complaint filed Wednesday with the U.S. Department of Education. (Google Maps) The week after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on ...
As of last June 30, UC Berkeley's endowment had a total market value of $7.4 billion, with $2.9 billion held by the UC Berkeley Foundation and $4.5 billion held by the University of California ...
The 1969 confrontation in People's Park grew out of the counterculture of the 1960s. [1] Berkeley had been the site of the first large-scale antiwar demonstration in the country on September 30, 1964. [2] The late 1960s saw student protests across the United States, such as the 1968 Columbia University and Democratic National Convention ...
April 23, 2024 at 4:31 PM. BERKELEY, Calif. - Like other college campuses across the country, students at the University of California, Berkeley joined the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" protest ...
Students and faculty members at Berkeley said SJP's protests heightened polarization, and were more "hostile" than other protests at Berkeley. One student remembers a demonstrator with a sign comparing the Star of David to the swastika. Students for Justice in Palestine picked up a nickname among critics, “Students for Just Us in Palestine.”