Dear colleagues,
Mark your calendars for April 24-30!
Planning is underway for Cal Week 2021, our virtual 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 returns, and will kick off the Cal Week festivities on Saturday, April 24. While things will look a little different this year, the campus will host presentations, programs and events designed for the community, prospective and admitted students so that they may imagine themselves as a part of the Berkeley family. Cal Day will begin at 9 am with a virtual welcome by Chancellor Christ and other campus leaders for admitted students and their families.
Cal Day typically hosts over 400 on-campus events and showcases the rich diversity of student life and the brilliance of Berkeley. This year, Cal Day will include programming that appeals to the broader community, while ensuring our admitted students feel especially welcome and can discover all that Berkeley has to offer them. Last year, Cal Week hosted over 250 virtual information sessions, workshops, panels, faculty lectures and more, appealing to both incoming freshman and transfer students.
In partnership with the Office of Public Affairs, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (OUA) will provide opportunities for campus units to host a single event or lecture, on a virtual platform. We urge every campus department and unit to begin now to make a plan to participate. Over the past few months, OUA has convened the Yield Stakeholders Meetings to provide updates on how to get involved. Our academic and student support departments, in particular, will be broadly represented to help engage and secure admitted students. While we encourage collaboration and consolidating events to avoid Zoom fatigue to the extent possible, we do encourage units to find out how to get involved or provide information to promote to incoming students.
If your academic or student support department would like to participate or to be added to the Yield Stakeholders Meeting, contact Stefan Montouth, associate director of admissions at smontouth@berkeley.edu. For community and student engagement, contact La Dawn Duvall, executive director, visitor & parent services at calday@berkeley.edu.
Thank you for your efforts to showcase Berkeley’s excellence in this popular and important event.
Sincerely,
Diana Harvey, Associate Vice Chancellor of Communications & Public Affairs
Olufemi Ogundele, Associate Vice Chancellor of Enrollment Management & Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
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