Ways to Get Involved

1. Offer hybrid options for lectures, discussions, office hours, and grace (extensions, modifications to assignments) for students facing housing insecurity. Honor Basic Needs Academic Adjustment Letters as you receive them.

2. Include the Basic Needs Center in your syllabus and websites: suggested language.

3. Direct students in need of housing support or academic adjustments letters to the Basic Needs Assistance Form.

4. Invite Basic Needs Center Staff to present to the faculty/staff at your college about the impact of housing insecurity on academic engagement and how best to support students. Complete a request form.

5. Host students for 1-6 month stays, and donate to programs that support these arrangements, like SafeTime.

6. Offer collaboration or consultation to the Basic Needs Center’s Housing Justice Efforts.

Consider joining the team at the Basic Needs Center through an internship or Student Ambassador position!

Share the BNC Housing Justice Hub with your network to raise awareness for housing justice on campus!

Request to speak to campus leadership about the challenges you and your peers face surrounding housing insecurity and highlight changes that can be made by the university to support meeting your basic needs. Contact:

1. 1. Carol Christ, Chancellor: chancellor@berkeley.edu

      1. Request an appointment with the chancellor here.

   2. Vice Chancellor of Administration, Marc Fisher: marcfisher@berkeley.edu

   3. Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Stephen Sutton: ssutton@berkeley.edu

   4. ASUC President, Chaka Tellem: president@asuc.org

      1. Chiefs of Staff email: opchief@asuc.org

   5. ASUC Executive Vice President, Giancarlo Fernandez: evp@asuc.org

   6. ASUC Academic Affairs Vice President, James Weichert: aavp@asuc.org

      1. Chief of Staff email: aavpchief@asuc.org

   7. ASUC External Affairs Vice President, Riya Master: eavp@asuc.org

      1. Chief of Staff email: eavpchief@asuc.org

   8. Vice Chancellor of Finance, Rosemarie Rae: rrae@berkeley.edu

   9. Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Oliver M. O'Reilly: oreilly@berkeley.edu

   10. Vice Provost for the Graduate Division, Lisa Garcia Bedolla: graddean@berkeley.edu

Consider donating to the Basic Needs Center directly to support it’s housing justice efforts. Donation link here.

Become a UC Berkeley student host through SafeTime.

Offer unused lot spaces to be the site of the Basic Needs Center’s Safe Parking Pilot program.

Share the BNC Housing Justice Hub with your network to raise awareness for student housing justice in off-campus properties.

Request to speak to campus leadership about reducing on-campus housing costs and increasing financial aid. Contact key stakeholders:

1. 1. Carol Christ, Chancellor: chancellor@berkeley.edu

   2. Vice Chancellor of Administration, Marc Fisher: marcfisher@berkeley.edu

   3. Vice Chancellor of Finance, Rosemarie Rae:

      1. rrae@berkeley.edu

   4. Vice Chancellor of University Development and Alumni Relations, Julie Hooper: julie.hooper@berkeley.edu

   5. Office of Government and Community Relations

      1. Phone: (510) 643-5299

      2. Assistant Chancellor of Government and Community Relations, Christine Treadway: ctreadway@berkeley.edu

      3. Director of Local Government & Community Relations, Ruben Lizardo: rlizardo@berkeley.edu

      4. Assistant Director of Local Government & Community Relations, Jen Loy: jenloy@berkeley.edu

      5. Director of Advocacy and Institutional Relations, Michelle Moskowitz: mbmoskowitz@berkeley.edu