"Five years after the California Legislature issued a report to promote a safer and more inclusive public college experience, students, higher education officials and diversity experts gathered at a legislative hearing in Berkeley on Tuesday to share their perspectives on what’s working and what’s not.
While student representatives from UC Berkeley and other state colleges acknowledged steps taken to provide ‘safe spaces’ at their schools for underrepresented minorities, several recounted ongoing experiences with discrimination, microaggression, social isolation and heavy-handed policing." …