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Regents say $7 million campus-climate fund has directed $5.3 million to trainings, mental-health support and surveys
Summary
Regents received an update on $7 million allocated to address campus bias, with $5.3 million spent so far on training, emergency mental-health support, a systemwide campus-climate survey and partnerships with student organizations.
Chair Lieb, chair of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee, told regents that the University of California has allocated $7 million to address bias and bigotry on campuses and that “the impact to date, approximately 5,300,000.0 of the 7,000,000 has already been allocated.”
The money, Lieb said, has funded training for about 20,000 people, emergency mental-health resources for students affected by hate or harassment and a systemwide campus-climate survey done with an external firm. "This investment reflects both an urgent response to meeting our current challenges and a long term strategy for bringing about systemic change," Lieb said.
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