Campus

UC Berkeley staff members to move to new off-site center

1608 Fourth Street is the location of the new Campus Shared Services Center.
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1608 Fourth Street is the location of the new Campus Shared Services Center.

Staff members from disparate campus departments will find themselves in an off-campus building beginning in September as part of a push to streamline UC Berkeley administration. A lease has been signed for a Fourth Street building that will become the Campus Shared Services Center and house finance, human resources, information technology and Read More…

UC

UC private support may be slowing

UC private support through the second quarter of the 2011-12 fiscal year is almost the same as last year, document states

From 2001-02 to 2010-11, the University of California saw an overall increase in private support as it ramped up efforts to garner donations due to state budget cuts — a trend that may be slowing this year. Over the course of fiscal year 2010-11, the UC received almost $1.6 billion Read More…

ASUC

Both ASUC ballot referendums called into question

Both fee initiatives on this year’s ASUC election ballot may be invalid. On Saturday, the ASUC Judicial Council voted to hold hearings that call the fate of the V.O.I.C.E. and Class Pass referendums into question. The council will hold one hearing to decide whether ASUC President Vishalli Loomba’s executive order voiding The Read More…

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UC Berkeley faculty request investigation of campus official’s pay raise scandal

13 professors want an independent committee to investigate campus official's improper pay raises to boyfriend

A group of UC Berkeley faculty members sent a letter Tuesday to Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer questioning the “surprisingly mild measures” administrators have taken in response to a campus official who gave pay raises to her sexual partner. Former assistant vice chancellor Diane Leite was recently demoted and docked Read More…