Conference: UC-Berkeley’s Equity Chief Gibor Basri Says Data Collection Key to Diversity Push

Conference: UC-Berkeley’s Equity Chief Gibor Basri Says Data Collection Key to Diversity Push: Getting the University of California, Berkeley to incorporate a diversity plan into its overall strategic plan was a long and hard-fought battle, but the more critical work of implementing the plan and achieving results is still in its early stages.

Such was the impression left Tuesday during a presentation about the plan that was given at the annual conference of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, or NADOHE.

The conference, which drew about 180 diversity officers from across the nation, was held in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the larger annual conference of the American Council on Education, which drew close to 1,700 attendees.

Among the presenters at the NADOHE conference was Dr. Gibor Basri, an astrophysicist who holds the UC-Berkeley post of vice chancellor of equity and inclusion.