CED SOC: College of Environmental Design - Students of Color

"Confronting the Path of Least Resistance: Power and Privilege in the Built Environment" panel focused on strategies for undoing the impacts of structural racism as a professional in planning, architecture, or design. Panelists were:

- Regina Davis: CED Alumna
Consultant specializing in Community
Development, Urban Planning, & Real
Estate Development services

- Mashael Majid: Program Director of Equitable
Development at Urban Habitat

- Danielle Harris: Emerging Mobility Policy + Innovation
Strategist at SFMTA's Office of
Innovation

First General Meeting of the school year tomorrow!

Welcome back happy hour + meet & greet with new members!

Join us tomorrow for a networking/student mixer between undergrads at BUSSA and grads students in the MCP program!

Join us next week for a grad/undergrad mixer!

Come join us next week for a MCP/BUSSA mixer! If you're an undergrad you get to hang with some cool grad students, and if you're a grad student you get to hang with some rad undergrads! :)

Hi Everyone! Additional scholarship opportunities available. **Only for eligible CED sophomores and juniors.

The FivePoint Scholarship Program was established by the San Francisco Foundation in partnership with UNCF to provide scholarship opportunities to eligible students at the University of California College of Environmental Design.

This scholarship will be awarded to current sophomores and juniors at CED who are African American or of African descent.

The award will waive student fees to use the computer lab, fabrication shop, and digital fabrication lab. This comes out to a total of almost $500 in fees waived per semester. Current sophomores will receive a scholarship of almost $2,000 total to cover 4 semesters of fees (their junior and senior years) and current juniors will receive a scholarship of almost $1,000 total to cover 2 semesters (their senior year).

There will be over 10 scholarships awarded. Applications are due April 15.

Here are more details about the award:
http://prizes-awards.ced.berkeley.edu/fivepoint-scholarship

The application can be submitted on the UNCF website:
https://scholarships.uncf.org/Program/Details/cab6e986-bfb3-472f-b43a-edf1fff69855

For questions, please contact Monica Renner ([email protected]).

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What an engaging and inspiring discussion last night at the "Professionals of Color in Design & Planning" panel at UC Berkeley! Thanks to Mario R. Rodas, Danielle J. Lan, Brytanee Brown, and Ok Han for sharing their experiences and to Irene Calimlim, MPH/MCP '19 for moderating on behalf of CEDSOC!

We reached $47k so far (that’s more than what CED ever raised on past big gives)!

It's pretty BIG that after years of student advocacy, the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley is create an endowment to support fellowships and scholarships for underrepresented minority students. Show you support by donating at ced.berkeley.edu/BigGive!

Shout out to Brooke Staton for writing this article last year on why "city planning programs must reflect diversity of communities served." We can work to make this a reality through the ced.berkeley.edu/BigGive

City planning programs must reflect diversity of communities served | The Daily Californian Segregation has accompanied material deprivations in cities for hundreds of years. Reading the history of cities reveals a story in which power, privilege and oppression play out across the geographic fabric where citizens live, work and play.Read More…

Why increase diversity in city planning? A lack of it led to policies of segregation that created many inequalities that communities experience now. We can fix this by creating an endowment for diversity scholarships. ced.berkeley.edu/BigGive!

How Urban Design Perpetuates Racial Inequality–And What We Can Do About It Our cities weren’t created equal. But they don’t have to stay that way.