# History Of ACES
**Source**: https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/community-engagement/history-aces-uc-berkeley-engaged-scholars-initiative-besi
**Parent**: https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/
The Berkeley Engaged Scholarship Initiative video project was designed to assist in narrating the meaning of engaged scholarship in UC Berkeley research and teaching. BESI became the foundations for our ACES Program offered today. The final Video Project, features a series of interviews with UC Berkeley faculty discussing their research as it relates to questions of public, community, and accessibility.
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### [Becoming Community, Becoming Cal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGwlGjP20L4)
Professor Na'ilah Suad Nasir of the UC Berkeley School of Education addresses the importance of honoring the expertise of community members as integral figures in any approach to civic engagement.
### [Relationships and Reciprocity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMl7CwQqD8U)
Professor Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, School of Education, on the role of service learning in her classroom, and how community engagement strengthens a student's education and builds on Berkeley's public mission.
### [Public Access to Privileged Knowledge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU_EO9_kyEU)
Dr. Ruth Tringham finds ways to make archaeological research more accessible to the public through digital technology.
### [Learning with Advocacy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS0HvKkbSiU)
Dr. Khatayra Um, Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley advocates for underrepresented students within public universities and stresses the importance of giving back to the communities you come from in order to correct social injustice.
### [Building Trusting Relationships](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPdAB41ASo)
Dr. James Corburn from the City and Regional Planning Department of UC Berkeley encourages students to develop trusting relationships with members of the local community in order to best generate solutions within service learning projects.
### [UC Berkeley's Approach to Complex Social Problems](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yN6f72UcLw)
Ashok Gadgil, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, discusses the importance of multi-disciplinary approaches to research, and how linking fields of study can help solve complex social problems.
### [Diversity's Role in a Research Environment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnTCNl5kDxM)
UC Berkeley Integrative Biology Professor Tyrone Hayes discusses the role diversity can play in participatory research, and how developing relationships within community's can make research outcomes more tangible.
### [Inspiring Students and Inspiring Change](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_4JUpet6L0)
Dr. Malo Hutson, City and Regional Planning, discusses the role a university has in community development and how academic experiences are enriched by combining higher education with service learning.
### [From Publication to Public Action](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI0QsDsBeb0)
Dr. Meredith Minkler from the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley emphasizes the importance of relating policy making to the social contexts of a community.
## Topics
- [Community Engaged Scholarship topic page](/topics/community-engaged-scholarship)
- [Videos - Clips and Films topic page](/topics/videos-clips-and-films)