A new solution to Cal’s housing and classroom shortageIn early March, the leadership of Mills College announced that the institution would discontinue its enrollment for first-year students after fall 2021. To help combat this shortage, Berkeley has already created special programs for first-year students, including the Fall Program for Freshmen (FPF) and the (pandemic-suspended) Global Edge in London. “The academic experience will be cozier, but otherwise similar, with an even more state-of-the-art Berkeley Changemaker curriculum,” says Richard Lyons. “The academic experience will be cozier, but otherwise similar, with an even more state-of-the-art Berkeley Changemaker curriculum,” said Richard Lyons, Berkeley’s chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer. For example, as UC Berkeley gets larger, my sense is that integrated first-year programming like this will become more and more valuable.