The California Assembly passed a bill Monday, allowing California community colleges to charge all students out-of-state tuition during summer and winter sessions, regardless of residency. Read More…
An appeal by a Berkeley resident who stabbed and killed a UC Berkeley student in 2008 was denied Wednesday by the state Supreme Court. Read More…
The Peralta Community College District is suing JPMorgan Chase & Co. because it believes the multinational banking corporation is exercising an option that potentially denies money to the taxpayers who support higher education institutions. Read More…
The conviction of Andrew Hoeft-Edenfield, a Berkeley resident who stabbed and killed a UC Berkeley student in 2008 was upheld by a state appeals court Friday. Read More…
The June 5 primary resulted in the passage of a measure that increases much-needed funding to the Peralta Community College District. The district sought a two-thirds voter approval in yesterday’s primary in order to be able to levy a special parcel tax, named Measure B. The measure eventually passed with Read More…
We are not alone. Consumed by talks of University of California budget cuts and tuition hikes, we sometimes forget that the UC system is not the only institution of higher education in the state that is suffering. Measure B aims to alleviate the financial difficulty of the Peralta Community College Read More…
Fueled by a nationwide trend born out of the Occupy movement that encourages a distrust of large corporate banks, the UC Student Association Board of Directors voted unanimously Saturday to look into moving the association’s funds from a large corporate bank to smaller local banks. The bill, which follows similar Read More…
Enthusiasm ran high for Occupy Cal as more than 700 UC Berkeley students, faculty and supporters marched off-campus to gain more support during Tuesday’s Open University strike and Day of Action. The march stopped at both Berkeley High School and Berkeley City College as protesters made their way through city streets Read More…
UC Berkeley public policy professor and former U. S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich will now hold his Mario Savio Memorial lecture in conjunction with Tuesday’s Open University Strike and Day of Action at 8 p.m. Occupy Cal protesters reached out to Reich and the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Read More…
Community members and city staff met at the North Berkeley Senior Center Wednesday evening to view redistricting plans submitted by fellow Berkeley residents, including proposals from two groups of students with different intentions for student representation in city government. Authors of the six redistricting plans presented their proposals before a Read More…
