Lawrence Pitts, UC provost and executive vice president of academic affairs, announced Thursday he will retire in February. Pitts was appointed interim provost in February 2009 and became the permanent provost in March 2010. As provost, Pitts oversaw academic affairs throughout the UC system, according to a press release issued Thursday Read More…
Efforts from State Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, and student associations secured a tuition freeze for both UC and CSU systems contingent upon a Wednesday vote in the state legislature and approval by Gov. Jerry Brown. Read More…
The second half of the California DREAM Act — which would allow undocumented students access to state financial aid — passed the state Senate Wednesday by a vote of 22 to 11. AB 131, authored by Assemblymember Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, will go back to the Assembly for a concurrence Read More…
Financial schedules from the UC Office of the President show that annual revenues for the university’s medical centers grew to almost $6 billion in 2010, an increase of nearly $2 billion over the medical centers’ revenue only six years before. UC medical centers are planning to use the increasing revenue Read More…
The closure of the California Postsecondary Education Commission this fall will mean that, for the first time in 38 years, aggregated higher education data will not be available to the public. The termination of the commission — whose website receives up to 120,000 hits a day, according to Karen Humphrey, Read More…
The UC Student Association posted on its Facebook page Sunday that state Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, had secured a tuition freeze for both the UC and CSU in the state budget with an additional $120 million in funds for both systems. Read More…
A racial discrimination lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court against the Regents of the University of California began jury selection Wednesday and will likely begin evidence presentation on Monday. The suit, filed by UC San Francisco employee Todd Senigar, alleges that, despite positive performance reviews and qualified credentials, he Read More…
President Barack Obama and college students around the country continue to push for congressional action to stop the doubling of student loan interest rates. Read More…
The UC Office of the President released the University of California’s annual payroll report for 2010 Wednesday, revealing a recent trend of declining state funding for employee compensation. The report, which outlines both the sources funding payroll and the groups receiving compensation, pinpoints the two major sources for funding of Read More…
University faculty and nonrepresented staff earning less than $200,000 annually will be eligible for merit raises under a plan announced this past week by the UC Office of the President. The pool of funds — included in the budget passed last fall by the UC Board of Regents — was Read More…
