Dear Colleagues,
Mark your calendar for Saturday, April 13th! Planning is underway for Cal Day 2019, our annual campus wide open house showcasing the best of Berkeley to thousands of newly admitted students – many of whom choose to attend Berkeley as a result of this experience – and their families. We invite you to begin considering how your department or unit will take part.
This year Cal Day will return to its roots and intentionally and purposefully create programming designed for admitted students so that they may imagine themselves as a part of the Berkeley family. The day will begin at 8am in Memorial Stadium with a morning welcome by Chancellor Christ and other campus leaders for these admitted students and their families. Following the morning welcome, families will have the opportunity to visit the Admitted Student Expo on Goldman Plaza designed to engage families and demonstrate Berkeley's commitment to ensuring that all students find community and achieve academic success.
We will continue the large format celebration across the rest of the campus that appeals to the broader community while at the same time ensuring our admitted students feel especially welcome and can discover all that Berkeley has to offer them. Cal Day typically features more than 400 events to showcase the rich diversity of student life and the brilliance of Berkeley. To help Cal Day attendees navigate the event, a special Cal Day app is in development.
During the day, admission is free to the Lawrence Hall of Science and the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, as well as to a variety of athletic events. Campus guests can also attend talks given by some of our most distinguished faculty, visit labs, see classrooms, and explore museums and collections rarely open to the public.
We urge every campus department and unit to begin now to make a plan to participate. Units might host a single event or lecture, staff a table at the Information Marketplace, which is located near Wheeler Hall, or create more extensive activities specifically to engage newly admitted students and their families. Our academic departments in particular should be broadly represented to help engage and secure admitted students.
A sampling of last year's events can be found online at calday.berkeley.edu. For departments that host special events during the year, we encourage you to consider scheduling these on Cal Day to create more opportunities for guests on that day.
If your department would like to participate, please contact La Dawn Duvall at calday@berkeley.edu. We encourage you to appoint a representative to attend a Cal Day orientation meeting for new and returning coordinators on Thursday, January 24th, from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in 103A Sproul Hall.
Thank you for your efforts to showcase Berkeley’s excellence in this popular and important event.
Sincerely,
Cathy Koshland, Vice Chancellor of Undergraduate Education
Stephen Sutton, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
Diana Harvey, Associate Vice Chancellor of Communications & Public Affairs
If you are a manager who supervises UC Berkeley employees without email access, please circulate this information to all.
