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  • Student Regent
• Cal Corps Public Service Center
• Center for Student Leadership
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  • Fraternity & Sorority Life
• Student Conduct and Community Standards
• Student Legal Services
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Below is a summary of Student Life Components Overseen by the Dean of Students

Attorney for Students

The Attorney for Students advises students regarding legal rights and obligations if they have a problem with or question about the law. The Attorney meets with hundreds of students each year to assist them with matters such as landlord-tenant disputes, contracts, consumer fraud (including Internet fraud), debt issues, criminal prosecution (including drunk driving), first amendment questions, accidents, employment issues, identity theft, family law, insurance, and wills and probate.   If legal representation is required, students will be referred to the appropriate resources.

Campus Life and Leadership is made up of more than 30 professional staff and 150 student interns, and the Business Operations Unit supports the administrative, financial management and planning, human resources, staff development, and technology needs of the department.

The Cal Corps Public Service Center was founded by the ASUC in 1967 as the Community Projects Office to fund and support student service groups in the community. Throughout the last 35+ years, Cal Corps has worked on a number of important issues including homelessness education and advocacy, environmental programming, and educational outreach. In the 1980s, Cal Corps became part of Campus Life and Leadership in a unique partnership intended to better support students and the community. The ASUC continues to fund the Student-Initiated Community Service Projects program and provides office space for the Center at Eshleman Hall while the University, through the Campus Life and Leadership, staffs and administers the Center. The Center is also funded by a variety of private foundations, the City of Berkeley, state, and federal grants.

Cal Corps serves as a campus nexus for public service and leadership opportunities that includes the following programs:

• AmeriCorps Bonner Leaders program
• BUILD Tutoring program (Bears United in Literacy Development)
• AmeriCorps Destination:College program
• AmeriCorps GAIN (Graduate AmeriCorps Internship Network) for MSW students
• Write 2 Read Literacy program
• Alternative Breaks co-curricular service learning program
• Student-Initiated Community Projects program
• Expanding Education through Social Action co-curricular service learning program
• Cal-in-Berkeley government internship program
• Chan International Service Fellows program
• UC Retired Faculty and Staff Volunteer Program

Cal Corps promotes community service, supports civic engagement, and provides extensive leadership trainings and workshops to its student participants. Students can receive units, wages and scholarships for their participation. The student staff at Cal Corps is responsible for running the vast majority of its community service programs, with guidance from professional staff.

The Center for Student Leadership consists of three sub-components, Leadership Development, Student Involvement, and Fraternity & Sorority Life.

- Leadership Development

Leadership Development is the namesake of a Campus Life and Leadership (CLL) initiative to create a comprehensive center for leadership, service, and ethical development programs for students with ties throughout the campus and local community. 

Leadership Development, working closely with Student Involvement as well as other campus partners, offers leadership, service, and ethical development opportunities to all Cal students, with the mission of motivating students to be ethical leaders who contribute to their communities and effect positive social change.  The Center fills a student need to participate in transformational programs that prepare them to be more engaged citizens in a multicultural world, to enhance skills that will prepare them for the many jobs they will hold throughout their careers, to learn about available campus programs, to connect their personal values to their decisions and actions, and to find community and connection among other involved students.  One overarching goal of the Center is to ensure that every Cal student participates in at least one leadership development and at least one co-curricular service-learning experience before graduation.

Leadership Development has developed a series of workshops intended to help student group leaders improve their leadership and planning skills. Topics of these workshops include event planning, group facilitation, leadership transition, fundraising, motivating others, planning group retreats, and inspiring a shared vision within an organization.

- Student Involvement

CLL’s Student Involvement component in 102 Sproul Hall advises and registers approximately 600 hundred student groups on campus.  This work includes:

• Registered Student Group Advising: CLL Student Group Advisors provide orientation and advising support to the registered student groups on campus. 
• Sponsored Student Organizations: Other specialized programs within Student Involvement and Leadership Programs include advising and support for 2 student honor societies, Cal Forensics (Berkeley’s championship speech & debate program), the Cal-in-the-Capital student internship program, 4 class councils, and the campus competitive Model United Nations program.
• Facilities & Events Management: CLL serves as one of many campus offices providing access to campus facilities. Our primary areas of responsibility are control and approval of student group use to general access classrooms, scheduling and management of outdoor facilities, and working with student groups, UCPD, and facility managers to ensure that large-scale campus events, including student dances, are carried out safely and adhere to campus regulations.
• Activism Support: Berkeley’s CLL is one of the only departments in the country to include activism support (sometimes referred to as “protest management”) in its range of services. Our advisors are specially trained to manage, support, and facilitate communication between students and the campus during times of student unrest. We also manage the campus’ compliance with the First Amendment by determining the place, time, and manner of free speech.
• Observer Program: CLL coordinates this program, which recruits, trains, and manages more than forty volunteer staff members to act as neutral observers at events where there is the likelihood of confrontation with police or violation of campus regulations.

- Fraternity & Sorority Life

Students involved in fraternities and sororities constitute that largest student group on campus with approximately 2,300 members (representing about 10% of the undergraduate student population). The Greek affairs advisors in CLL support and promote the academic and social development of student leaders in the Greek community by advising:

• 13 College Panhellenic Association chapters (traditional women’s sororities)
• 35 Interfraternity Council chapters (traditional men’s fraternities)
• 9 Multicultural, ethnic specific, and special interest chapters
• 6 National Pan Hellenic Council chapters (traditional African American fraternities & sororities)
• Greek Affairs also leads numerous leadership classes and workshops for members of the Greek community, including Team CAL.

Located in the Cesar Chavez Student Center, GenEq works in close partnership with students to serve the UC Berkeley community by addressing the complexities of sexual orientation, sex identity and gender discrimination. GenEq programs include:

• Women’s Programs & Services:  Professional staff and student peer advisors coordinate programs and activities to support and promote the diverse needs and issues related to being a woman on the Berkeley campus.  One of GenEq’s peer education programs, SHAPE (Sexual Harassment and Assault Peer Education), offers student interns the opportunity to take an extensive training program in sexual assault, harassment, and gender discrimination issues.  The interns coordinate a semester-long seminar for academic credit and facilitate workshops for other students intended to increase awareness of, encourage proper response to, and reduce the occurrence of, incidents of assault and harassment in the campus community.
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Programs & Services:  LGBT staff provides students with a safe space to explore their sexuality, offers administrative and advising support for student activities, and advocates on behalf of LGBT students, staff, and faculty.  Among its offerings are the “Ally” program, which offers an in-depth training focused on the concept of gender privilege and its intersection with racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.  Not only can any student attend Cal Ally workshops, they can also participate in an extended facilitator training and eventually lead their peers through Ally workshops.
• Classes and Workshops: GenEq offers numerous classes, speakers, panels, and workshops relating to sexual harassment, tolerance and understanding of difference, assault advocacy, peer education, sexuality and gender issues. 
• Bias Related and Sexual Harassment Response and Education:  GenEq serves as a campus advocate and resource for students facing bias, harassment, assault, and unfair treatment.
• Student Guidance and Mentoring: The GenEq staff spends hundreds of hours each year on direct student casework, advising, supporting, and responding to students with concerns and problems of all types: sexual identity, difficult living situations, sexual harassment, stalking, domestic violence, discrimination, sexual assault and rape, disability, and drug and alcohol addiction.

Campus Life and Leadership serves as the campus administrator of the Student Code of Conduct via the Office of Student Conduct (OSC), located in 2536 Channing Way. Central to the mission of OSC is educating the campus community on the established standards of behavior by conducting outreach and informational seminars to ensure that students, faculty, and staff understand the terms of the Code of Student Conduct. OSC also oversees administration of the Code and conducts hearings on conduct violations. In 2003-04, OSC handled more than 500 student conduct cases. OSC provides peer review training programs: one is an in-depth training for the members of the Peer Judicial Board (“J-Comm”) of the Interfraternity Council, who process disciplinary hearings for fraternities and their members. OSC provides a similar training for Student Conduct Hearing Panels, which serve as the arbiters of student conduct cases and whose members include students, faculty, and staff.