Nearly 1,300 people have signed a petition calling for both the rehiring of Justin Yokota, a UC Berkeley lecturer, and the reopening of CS 168, “Introduction to the Internet” for the fall 2025 semester.
Yokota, a lecturer in the electrical engineering and computer sciences, or EECS, department, learned April 23 that he would not be reappointed. Since joining campus faculty in 2022, he has co-taught CS 61A, 61B and 61C — three of campus’s main lower-division computer science courses.
Yokota said he was told by the department his contract was not being renewed because an Academic Senate faculty member was taking his position…