To all incoming freshmen, I will first say that CalSO is terrible, and if you walk away with nothing but a sweaty Cal ID photo and an unbearable desire to transfer before August, you’re in good company. If you’re enjoying yourself, kudos. If not, hang in there. The school year Read More…
UC Berkeley will move forward with plans to construct a new multimillion-dollar aquatics facility, following approval by the UC Board of Regents at its meeting Wednesday. The $15 million facility, to be named the California Aquatics Center, will replace the parking lot adjacent to the Tang Center on Bancroft Way. Read More…
Increasing undergraduate nonresident enrollment at UC Berkeley may decrease campus racial and socioeconomic diversity, according to research released this month. Read More…
The California State Legislature rejected Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed unit caps for the University of California and California State University, decrying the policy as unfair to students and as an ineffective means of cutting costs. Despite promising greater system efficiency, the proposed unit cap — part of Brown’s proposed 2013-14 Read More…
Despite a marked increase in applications from underrepresented minorities to UC Berkeley this year, the representation of those minorities in the admitted pool of students remained constant compared to previous years.
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UC Berkeley maintained the ethnic composition of its freshman admits and has accepted fewer in-state students this year while increasing nonresident acceptance rates, according to data released by the UC Office of the President Thursday. Read More…
UC Berkeley accepted fewer in-state students this year, according to data released by the UC Office of the President Thursday morning. Read More…
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer will retire from his post in December, he announced last week. Breslauer, who became executive vice chancellor in 2006, is stepping down after 42 years as a faculty member at UC Berkeley. The campus has initiated a search for a new executive vice Read More…
John Gumperz dedicated his life to language. A UC Berkeley professor emeritus of anthropology, he died at the age of 91 on Friday in Santa Barbara. Gumperz was an intellectual and adventurer — a curious, unassuming scholar who studied people and language all around the world. He used his research Read More…
A little past 4 a.m., the campus is silent. Five students stand huddled together, barely visible through a thick fog, wrapped in jackets and scarves to withstand the morning chill. They talk quietly on the steps of Upper Sproul Plaza, eating reserves of bread and cookies as the minutes tick Read More…
