A memorial vigil planned for Saturday on Upper Sproul Plaza has been canceled, according to event organizers. The memorial, announced Thursday, was a response to anonymous online posts stating that a female UC Berkeley student had died. Read More…
Protesters briefly brought Thursday’s UC Board of Regents meeting to a halt, though demonstrations throughout the day never reached the scale of last year’s Nov. 15 Day of Action. The meeting, which took place at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus, was the third and final day of the regents’ November meeting. Read More…
UC Berkeley placed ninth among universities worldwide, according to rankings released Wednesday by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
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Students and other members of the UC Berkeley community rallied alongside campus service workers on Sproul Plaza Thursday afternoon demanding that the campus rehire workers who will be laid off in November.
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UC Berkeley has placed 22nd in recently released 2012 QS World University rankings, down one place from last year but up from its 28th-place ranking in 2010. The survey ranks universities on six factors, each on a 100-point scale, including academic reputation, citations per faculty, faculty to student ratio, employer Read More…
A bill passed by the state Legislature will request California’s public universities to designate a high-level administrator to act as a liaison between campus security and administrators and student demonstrators during large protests.
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Two city of Berkeley commissions requested a report Tuesday on the effects of the diesel spill that took place on the UC Berkeley campus last December. Read More…
The university will pay $162,500 to David Morse, who filed a lawsuit against the UC for being arrested while reporting on a protest outside Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s campus residence in 2009. Read More…
With the end of its five year commitment to the Kuali Student project — a software project that focuses on confronting the business needs of higher education — UC Berkeley has chosen to withdraw from the program this week.
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A report released Sunday by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni proposed that California’s higher education problems stem not from a lack of funding but from a misallocation of current resources. The Washington, D.C.-based independent nonprofit organization published the report amid debate about whether the crisis of public higher Read More…