UC Berkeley is known as one of the nation’s best public research universities, but one of the worst University of California campuses for Black students. The campus is trying to change that with better recruitment, financial aid and student support.a name of a prominent campus building last year which was named after a eugenics leader and the university’s fifth president.
Several faculty members argued the name removal was incomplete and unjust to Kroeber, arguing that his work salvaged some of the history and culture of Native tribes following the killing of indigenous people. Kroeber also declared the Ohlone people, Natives who traced their lineage to the Bay Area, to be culturally extinct, which led to the federal government not recognizing the tribe and leaving the present-day Muwekma Ohlone Tribe politically powerless and without land, the committee said.
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