Formerly incarcerated students

  • Berkeley Underground Scholars (BUS) creates a pathway for incarcerated, formerly incarcerated and system-impacted individuals into higher education. They work to build a prison-to-school pipeline through recruitment, retention, and advocacy. BUS is an academic support program.
  • The Underground Scholars Initiative (USI) was created to support all prospective and current UC Berkeley students impacted by issues of mass incarceration, imprisonment, and detainment of any kind.