Apparently, for increasing numbers of Berkeley students, the prospect of fixing our own country’s problems just isn’t enough anymore–not when they can minor in saving the whole world! OK, so that might be a bit of a gross over-simplification, but the numbers are in and “Global Poverty and Practice” has officially taken education’s spot as Berkeley’s most popular minor.
The minor has been around for just two years, but darn if it ain’t just the fastest-growin’ li’l academic sprout you ever did see–thanks in no small part to super-professor Ananya Roy. And fortunately for the existential well-being of the 150 or so global poverty minors running around campus, she’s got the savvy to preemptively discourage delusions of globe-rescuing grandeur: read more »


