---

JUST RELEASED:
HAAS INSTITUTE 2014 ANNUAL REPORT

The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society is proud to release our 2014 Annual Report. This Annual Report, our first, captures our second full year of activities as we continued to pursue the vision and broader agenda outlined in our strategic plan: to realize transformative change by leveraging world-class research. Our report features our leading initiatives and areas of critical inquiry, faculty clusters, and key events from 2014. 

The Haas Institute operationalizes our vision by developing deeply collaborative, strategic, and impactful alliances with a diverse variety of stakeholders. This framework of connection and collaboration is woven directly into how the Haas Institute is structured in regards to our seven faculty clusters, all of which are designed to break out of the traditional method of researchers working in academic silos. Comprised of almost 100 faculty across UC Berkeley, our faculty research clusters are all multidisciplinary and policy-oriented in focus.

While our faculty leverage multidisciplinary talent to examine dimensions of marginality, the central and organizing theme for the Haas Institute research agenda is the broader issue of Othering and Belonging. Othering is a frame that captures not only the manifold forms of prejudice and persistent group-based marginality, but also directs our attention to a set of common processes and mechanisms that engender it. 

PROFILES
Finding, creating, and sustaining linkages between community organizations, policymakers, communicators, and scholars is integral to the Haas Institute’s vision. We asked some of our staff and partners to elaborate on the work they do and how this connective approach advances our mutual vision of a fair and inclusive society.

PROGRAMS
The Haas Institute is poised to respond to critical issues by framing and disseminating the work of the clusters and leveraging our staff research capacity to advance promising interventions. In addition to the scholarship of the research clusters, the research portfolio of the Institute has evolved around a number of discrete projects and program areas. Our major initiatives, described in this report, are centered in collaboration with communities, research partners, and advocacy organizations who share our values. 

Download the Haas Institute 2014 Annual Report here.