Academic literature on the topic 'University of California, Berkeley. Alumni'

Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2016.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>In 2012, the City of Richmond submitted a proposal and was selected to be home of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Second Campus. The elimination of more than $1.5 billion in federal funding halted the project, after which the Berkeley Global Campus concept was developed and introduced by the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) chancellor. The proposed Berkeley Global Campus is an international research and education hub that Richmond anticipates will anchor a revitalized waterfront district. The campus is an opportunity to build from the ground up a university campus that will also generate wealth for the local community. Richmond is grappling with challenges that are familiar to many cities: 1) how to enable redevelopment of a vacant, previously industrial site, and 2) how to shape a university-community partnership that facilitates deep economic impact in communities in areas including employment, local procurement, and housing. As UC Berkeley and the City of Richmond remain committed to realizing the vision for the university campus, this period can be utilized to articulate a deliberative and inclusive planning process building on the planning and collaborative infrastructure already in place. This thesis explores how the City of Richmond can help facilitate the university campus development and achieve social goals based on wealth creation.<br>by Jennifer Ly.<br>M.C.P.

Dans les annees soixante, le campus de berkeley (californie) fut le berceau de la contestation etudiante americaine. L'apogee de cette contestation fut marquee en 1964 par l'emergence du free speech movement (fsm). Cependant, l'origine de cette agitation remonte a tasc et slate, deux autres mouvements contestataires de berkeley, qui contribuerent a faire de l'universite de californie le laboratoire du changement social. Le but de cette these est de montrer la continuite qui existe entre ces trois mouvements. Dans un premier temps, elle remonte a la periode maccarthyste qui semble avoir seme les graines de cette revolte. Elle essaie de montrer les raisons pour lesquelles un vent de changement social a souffle sur la brillante universite de berkeley (causes exogenes et endogenes). Ensuite, elle essaie de tisser les liens qui relient microcosme universitaire et premier amendement de la constitution americaine puisque le theme de la liberte d'expression etait au coeur des revendications des contestataires. Elle etablit egalement un parallele entre la contestation de berkeley et la nouvelle gauche americaine en abordant le probleme de la "multiversite", terme utilise par clark kerr pour definir son universite. Apres avoir tisse la toile de fond de ce soulevement etudiant, l'etude aborde dans un deuxieme temps la revolte de berkeley a proprement parler. Elle s'interesse au profil des contestataires etudiants et aux trois mouvements contestataires deja mentionnes. Enfin, elle essaie de voir le rapport qui existe entre berkeley et revolution contre-culturelle des annees soixante, et montre que la contestation etudiants depassait bien le cadre des etats-unis en general et celui du campus de berkeley en particulier<br>The berkeley campus in california became the birthplace of student protest in the sixties. The climax of this protest was the free speech movement (fsm) which emerged in 1964. However, the origin of berkeley student protest goes back to tasc and slate. Those two student protest movements made people say that berkeley had become the seat of social change. The purpose of this dissertation is to show that there is a continuity between these three movements. In the first part, we will review the mccarthy era which seems to have sown the seeds of protest. We will also try to show the reasons why a wind of change blew through this prestigious campus - within and without. Then, we will analyze the links between the university microcosm and the first amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Indeed, the freedom of speech was at the core of what the students demanded. The dissertation also links the berkeley student protest to the american new left by dealing with the 'multiversity'. The word itself was coined by president clark kerr to define what berkeley was like in the sixties. After analyzing the reasons for the berkeley student unrest, we will study the berkeley revolt proper. The latter will mainly deal with the profile of the students and the three protest movements we have already discussed. We will see the links between berkeley and the counter-cultural revolution of the sixties. We will eventually show that student protest in the sixties went far beyond berkeley

Institutions of higher education rely upon the support of their alumni to provide financial stability. This outward show of confidence by alumni is also an important indication for external constituents who rank colleges and universities based on funding sources such as corporations and foundations. Private universities, in particular, have been cultivating their alumni to support their alma maters through annual and endowed gifts to provide the financial support to continue educating future generations of students. This study surveyed undergraduate alumni from the University of the Pacific through a voluntary questionnaire that was made available to alumni through the alumni e-news letter, "What's Up, Pacific?" The purpose of the study was to analyze the factors that motivate undergraduate alumni at the University of the Pacific to make gifts to their alma mater and to examine if social exchange theory can be applied to the giving behaviors of these alumni. The research questions that were addressed were 1) to what extent were Pacific alumni satisfied with their University of the Pacific experiences as a student and as alumni, 2) what internal and external factors motivate these alumni to make a gift, regardless, of the amount to the university, and, 3) how does social exchange theory serve to explain, at least in part, the behavior underlying alumni giving patterns at the University of the Pacific? Descriptive statistics and cross-tabulations were developed to analyze the data which showed that the vast majority of alumni were overall satisfied with their experiences as students (95%) and as alumni (76%). The motivators that alumni sited as the most likely to compel them to make a gift included satisfaction with their Pacific experience, commitment to support future generations of Pacific students, wanting to further the cause of the university, the importance of giving back, and the fact that giving to their alma mater makes them feel good. There were many open ended comments that support the social exchange theory as it serves to explain donor behavior. Recommendations for further research were included in the dissertation.

This project developed a resource development plan for the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, San Bernardino. It employs research in organizational communication and applies the theory of organizational identification to the relationship / donor aspect of the program. It also covers research in the field of organizational identification and its relevance to college alumni.