The UC Board of Regents is set to meet this week at the UCSF Mission Bay campus to discuss litigation against the university, funding for capital building projects and increasing nonresident enrollment at the university. Read More…
In the face of deteriorating state funding, the UC has turned toward enrolling more nonresident students to make up for revenue shortfalls, prompting concerns over the UC’s commitment to its public mission. Read More…
If voters reject Prop. 30 at the polls Tuesday, the state budget dictates that the University of California will be dealt a $250 million cut this fiscal year and another $125 million cut in 2013-14. Read More…
Dwindling state funding has lent a new significance to the push for private donations at UC Berkeley and throughout the UC system. Read More…
In emails sent between administrators surrounding the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal protest, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau criticized Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, and State Senator Loni Hancock, D-Oakland. Emails recently received by the Daily Cal from the UC Berkeley Public Records office include a Nov. 8 email from Birgeneau to Executive Vice Chancellor Read More…
In March 1 letter to the UC Board of Regents, the senior vice president of U.S. Bank stated that the Feb. 28 closure of the bank’s branch on the UC Davis campus was a direct result of demonstrations which have taken place inside and outside of the bank since January. Read More…
A proposal made by Gov. Jerry Brown in his May Revise could significantly decrease Cal Grant funding and leave some students without grant aid. Brown’s recently published revised budget proposal — informally called the May Revise — proposes that eligibility for the Cal Grant be tied to eligibility for the Federal Read More…
A shift in the way the UC Office of the President gathers funds from each campus has caused some concern about the impact on student fees and the financial state of individual campuses. In previous academic years, revenue generated from individual campuses had been collected and then redistributed across the Read More…
For the sixth straight year, the University of California will not see a general obligation facilities bond measure on the November ballot after the university decided not to pursue it. The decline of bond revenues that have supported capital projects over the past decade has forced the university to find Read More…
The UC Board of Regents will discuss the possibility of stabilizing and preventing an increase in student housing costs at UC Berkeley during the March 28 regents meeting. According to a meeting action item — which proposes restructuring the campus’s housing debt — campus housing amounts to 43 percent of a Read More…
