What did we achieve this fall?

A brief overview of our activities

Highlights:
First semester after transition and rebranding from WEB to BEE.
Expanded participation in BEE activities and leadership positions.
All events held virtually given COVID-19 Protocols.
Launched new initiatives in grant awards, undergraduate tutoring, high school outreach.

Support areas
Finance Communications
We received donations to support
our activities and programs

Our donors Purpose

Graduate Fund our programs

Assembly Updated our website Maintained an active
Reimburse students
Economics with new content about presence on Twitter,
for meals/gift cards
Department BEE's activities promoting BEE events
Support our and sharing other
mentoring and diversity/economics
CEGA Funds related content.
outreach programs

Events

Social Events/ Professional

Research Seminars
Community Building Development Panels
Hosted two virtual panels:
Held two virtual social Held back on research
breakfasts for students Topic: advice on talking events this semester
with faculty. given general seminar
Held one end-of-semester
Speaker: advanced “Zoom fatigue”.
virtual mixer for
graduate student
students/staff/faculty
Topic: generating and
killing research ideas
Speaker: profs. Emi
Nakamura and Danny
Yagan

Initiatives
Faculty Recruiting High School Outreach

Student volunteers helped Held weekly virtual panels on where

identify and vet URM/female students and faculty spoke about
candidates for recommendation different economics topics to students
to currently hiring departments at Berkeley High School
Various students and faculty virtually
Undergraduate visited a Research Methods class
Tutoring/Mentoring for Freshmen at De Anza High School
and provided feedback on student
We matched up 11 projects.
undergraduates in UME* with
paid graduate student tutors Admissions
for instruction in core
Engaged in initial fact-finding about
economics courses.
admissions processes in
Matched 10 undergraduates Economics, ARE, and public health to
in UME to graduate student better understand current procedures
mentors to provide advice.

Had panelist from BEE speak Research Grants

at a panel organized by
UWEB**. Awarded $1,000 research grants to
Jay Sayre and to Kayleigh
Barnes/Jakob Brounstein (shared)
Curricular Reform
for work related to diversity/equity
Developed a proposal for how through a competitive review process
the economics department could with outside expert reviewers
institute a formal process for
curricular reform for crucial
classes.
*UME: Underrepresented Minorities in Economics **UWEB: Undergraduate Women in Economics
 Which are our future steps?
what to look forward to in the spring

Overall Highlight:
Events must still only be held virtually in the Spring 2021 semester

Support areas
Finance Communications

Solidifying our financial procedures and Continuing to improve our online

developing longer term funding presence as BEE
goals.

More events!

Research Brainstorming Professional Development

Sessions Panels

Job Market Experience

Virtual Social Events
Panel

Expanding our initiatives!

Continuing undergraduate Scaling up outreach

tutoring, and expanding programs at Berkeley and
our mentorship program. De Anza High Schools

We are awarding two more Additional work advancing

research grants through admissions and
competition in Spring. curricular reform.

Provided resources (facts,

newsletters) to raise awareness in
the community on diversity and
equity in Econ, ARE, and Business
programs at the undergraduate and
graduate level.