Here are some resources that we hope you will find useful.
Diversity Issues
- Thin Ice: Stereotype Threat and Black College Students by Claude Steele, a fascinating study on the difference in performance by black and white students.
- Study Group on University Diversity for the University of California. Discusses negative trends in diversity at every level within the UC system. Also of interest: the full summary of findings of the study group, and Gender Equity in Faculty Hiring in the UC system.
- Diversity in Science, Part 1: Black History Month Celebration at the blog Urban Science Adventures!
- Diversity in Science Association: features a quantitative analysis of the underrepresentation of minorities and women in science, carried out by Dr. Donna Nelson
UC Berkeley and its Department of Mathematics
- The University of California at Berkeley
- UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics
- The Noetherian Ring is an organization of graduate students, postdocs, and professors in Berkeley's Math Department who happen to be women
- Mathematics Graduate Student Association (MGSA) is an organization for Berkeley's math graduate students
- The MGSA Wiki, featuring advice from graduate studeints in the mathematics department
- Berkeley Math Forum is a discussion forum for the entire Berkeley Mathematics community. Both undergrad and grad students welcome! (A CalNet ID is required.)
- The Berkeley Edge Program is a recruitment, retention and advancement program designed to increase the number of underrepresented minority students who acquire doctoral degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics
Some Important Student Groups at UC Berkeley
- BGESS is the Black Graduate Engineering and Science Students of UC Berkeley
- The Compass Project is a community of undergraduate and graduate students in the physical science departments at Berkeley
- LAGSES is the Latino/a Association for Graduate Students in Engineering and Science
- The Noetherian Ring is an organization of graduate students, postdocs, and professors in Berkeley's Math Department who happen to be women
- SACNAS, the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, has a UC Berkeley chapter
- SWPS is the Society for Women in the Physical Sciences
Student Groups from other campuses
- The Mathematistas at San Francisco State University, supporting women in the pursuit of higher mathematics