On Tuesday, March 19, the President’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women (PACSW) will hold a special Women’s History Month presentation of its Women We Admire speaker series, featuring UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ. All staff are welcome and encouraged to attend to learn more about Chancellor Christ’s life and career.

Join us

• What: Women We Admire: Chancellor Carol T. Christ
• When: March 19, 12 – 1 p.m.
• Oakland: Franklin Building Lobby 1
• Zoom: ucop.zoom.us/j/95440668093

Immediately after this event, Oakland staff are invited to stay for an in-person networking event.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ

About Chancellor Christ

Carol T. Christ began her term as the 11th chancellor of UC Berkeley on July 1, 2017. A celebrated scholar of Victorian literature, Christ is also well known as an advocate for quality, accessible public higher education; a proponent of the value of a broad education in the liberal arts and sciences; and a champion of women’s issues and diversity on college campuses.

Christ joined the Berkeley English faculty in 1970 and spent more than three decades as a professor and administrator at UC Berkeley. She served as chair of the English department; dean of the Division of Humanities; provost for the College of Letters and Science; and as UC Berkeley’s executive vice chancellor and provost from 1994 until 2000. She then moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, to serve as president of Smith College. Christ returned to Berkeley in January 2015 to direct the campus’s Center for Studies in Higher Education and was appointed interim executive vice chancellor and provost in April 2016 before being named chancellor in March 2017. Since her return to Berkeley, she has worked to foster community and improve campus climate for people of all backgrounds, celebrate the institution’s longstanding commitment to free speech, strengthen Berkeley’s financial position, address a housing shortage and develop a 10-year strategic plan for the campus.

Christ received her bachelor’s degree from Douglass College and doctorate from Yale University. She is the author of two books — “The Finer Optic: The Aesthetic of Particularity in Victorian Poetry” (1975) and “Victorian and Modern Poetics” (1994) — and has edited or co-edited several others, including “The Norton Anthology of English Literature.” Christ is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Christ was married for 21 years to Paul Alpers, a professor of English and founding director of UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities, until his death in 2013. She has two grown children, Jonathan and Elizabeth Sklute, from a previous marriage, as well as two grandchildren. She lives in Berkeley.

Mark your calendar for more PACSW’s Women’s History Month events

Oakland PACSW International Women’s Day Party
March 12, 3 – 4:30 p.m. | Oakland Broadway Conference Center
Join PACSW as we make friendship bracelets for International Women’s Day while enjoying light refreshments.

UCPath Center PACSW International Women’s Day Party
March 13, 12 – 1:30 p.m. | UCPath Room 2143
Join PACSW as we make friendship bracelets for International Women’s Day while enjoying light refreshments.

PACSW Networking Event
March 19, 12:45 – 1:30 p.m. | Oakland Franklin Lobby 1
Oakland staff are invited to remain in Lobby 1 following Chancellor Christ’s discussion for a networking event featuring light refreshments.

PACSW 15th Anniversary Celebration
March 27, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Oakland Broadway Conference Center
Join PACSW as we celebrate 15 years of accomplishments with light refreshments! All are welcome, including PACSW alumni. PACSW leadership will share brief remarks at 3 p.m.

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