William Lester currently serves as a professor and associate dean in the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the associate director and faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Gibor Basri, vice chancellor of equity and inclusion at Berkeley, stated that the main purpose of these programs is "to provide a place where students in these populations can find community and a safe space to talk about the challenges of being in that particular community."
The Creating Connections Consortium is a partnership between 26 leading liberal arts colleges and the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University.
• Amber Hunter was named director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She is the first African-American to hold the position...
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