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April 18, 2024

Link to BRS News article

April 8, 2024

We are pleased to announce the BEST region's High Five nominees for March 2024! Please join us in congratulating our stellar colleagues on their amazing performance, efforts and hard work! Each nominee will receive a copy of their acutal nomination via email. In addition, each month, 5 winners are chosen at random from the list of nominees to receive an Amazon gift card, delivered to them via email.

March 13, 2024

A link to the full BRS news article. 

February 6, 2024

Hello BEST Region,

I am reaching out to provide guidance and important deadlines for J-1 and H-1B requests. Please cascade this information to any new or existing faculty that may benefit from these deadlines.

H1-B guidance and upcoming deadlines:

February 2, 2024

We are pleased to announce the BEST region's High Five nominees for January 2024! Please join us in congratulating our stellar colleagues on their amazing performance, efforts and hard work! Each nominee will receive a copy of their acutal nomination via email. In addition, each month, 5 winners are chosen at random from the list of nominees to receive an Amazon gift card, delivered to them via email.

January 18, 2024

October 25, 2023

September 1, 2023

August 28, 2023

June 26, 2023

May 10, 2023

A link to the wider BRS news article. 

April 25, 2023

Full article on BRS website.

April 6, 2023

This represents a CALMessage sent to all BEST departments on 4/5/23

March 8, 2023

This year's details announced by SSALL and BRS.

March 6, 2023

Regions begin announcing '23 Summer Salary details.

February 28, 2023

APO announced this news to campus in an email on 2/21/23.

October 24, 2022

This is a link to the BRS News article.

October 17, 2022

This is a link to the BRS news article of 10/13/22.

October 6, 2022

We are happy to share the good news that effective 10/1/22, the BEST Region “officially” began providing onboarding services directly to Berkeley employees for the campus departments we serve. 

Here is what BEST clients will experience: 

August 1, 2022