Written Comment to Board of Regents

March 2024: Public written comment to the University of California Board of Regents, item A1 on Mathematics Preparation for UC Admission – Past, Present, and Future, on the March 20, 2024 agenda of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee:

• Link to comment by Jelani Nelson, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley.
  
  

The above refers to this 2024 open letter signed by industry leaders from major technology companies such as Google, OpenAI, X, Apple, NVIDIA, Amazon, Databricks, xAI, Amplitude, Facebook, Microsoft, and more.

November 2023: Public written comment to the University of California Board of Regents, item A4 on Mathematics Preparation and Undergraduate Admissions, on the November 15, 2023 agenda of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee:

• Link to comment by Miller Allen, President of the Cal Black Engineering and Science Alumni Club (BESAC), on behalf of BESAC.

• Link to comment by Laura Giuliano, Professor of Economics, UC Santa Cruz. BOARS member 2022-23.

• Link to comment by Jelani Nelson, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley.

• Link to comment by Stuart Russell, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science; Michael H. Smith and Lotfi A. Zadeh Chair in Engineering; Director, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence;  Director, Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, UC Berkeley.

• Link to comment by Kirk Tramble, President of the Cal Alumni Association, and President Emeritus of the Cal Black Engineering and Science Alumni Club.

See also  this 2022 open letter signed by nearly 450 California faculty, with many in data science, of which 235 signatories are UC senate faculty and 30 signatories are from the Cal State system.