Your investment in faculty and graduate students will ignite the very core of Berkeley’s excellence and secure our intellectual future for decades to come.
Supporting Faculty
Supporting social sciences faculty addresses both near- and long-term needs by improving endowed funds targeting recruitment and retention, raising current use gifts in support of research, and securing additional funds to support career teaching positions. Supporting our faculty in this way relieves bottlenecks in gateway courses and brings teaching commitments by tenure-track faculty in line with peer institutions. Your support ensures that our students have access to the best scholars in the world and that cutting-edge research is conducted at UC Berkeley amidst our commitment and dedication to the public good.
Supporting Graduate Student Fellowships
Recognizing the importance of graduate students to the research enterprise, as well as their impact on teaching and institutional reputation, the Social Sciences Division will expand the number and total amount of graduate fellowship endowments. Among our priorities are more stable, multi-year fellowships to ensure the size and quality of our graduate student cohorts and an increase in the amount of summer funding to ensure they remain focused on their scholarship.
