Advancing knowledge and practice wherever people interact with information and technology

As an Army veteran at the I School, Steve Trush (MIMS '18) felt empowered to apply his experience in operational planning and security risk management in the “tech for social good” space: “We learn in the military how to lead diverse teams to solve problems under immense resource constraints, but that skill needs to be adapted to how the tech industry works ... the I School helps make that translation of skills possible.”

The incoming cohort of the I School’s newest degree program, the Master of Information and Cybersecurity (MICS), includes several student veterans. Delivered online, MICS provides the technical skills and contextual knowledge students need to assume leadership positions in technology companies as well as government and military organizations.

Throughout the Spring 2018 commencement ceremony, speakers asked the graduates to use what they’d learned at the I School to improve the world.

Keynote speaker Joseph Hall addressed the crowd almost exactly 10 years after his own Berkeley I School graduation. He appealed to the Class of 2018, in this 150th Anniversary of UC Berkeley, to keep in mind Berkeley's simple, yet powerful motto, fiat lux.

MIMS student speaker Edward Yip solicited the graduates to create technologies to benefit society, and MIDS student speaker Ashton Chevallier asked that they work to make the world a better, less biased place.