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Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer announces retirement

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer speaks in Sacramento at a rally with students in support of higher education in 2011.
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Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer speaks in Sacramento at a rally with students in support of higher education in 2011.

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…

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Election will have powerful impact on UC

Cuts in state funding have taken toll on public education

With state funding accounting for only about 11 percent of UC Berkeley’s operating budget in the 2011-12 academic year, a question arises as to what, exactly, defines a public university. We believe that while sources of revenue are an element of the equation, there are other important attributes that must Read More…

Sports

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Video: Take a tour of the new Memorial Stadium

Watch this video of Cal’s refurbished Memorial Stadium and hear from individuals such as Chancellor Birgeneau and head coach Jeff Tedford at the football media press conference.

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Police raid the Gill Tract occupiers in Albany on May 14.

Litigation continues against Gill Tract occupiers

Ongoing litigation continues against protesters who occupied UC-owned land in Albany two weeks after UCPD cleared out the encampment. Two of the 10 protesters arrested during the May 14 raid on the Occupy the Farm camp had their charges dropped by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office last Wednesday, and Read More…