6 protesters were arrested Thursday after disrupting the appointment of incoming UC President Janet Napolitano and refusing to disperse pursuant to police orders, at a UC Board Regents meeting at UCSF Mission Bay. Read More…
Several UC Berkeley affiliates intend to protest the appointment of former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano as President of the University of California, who is set to be confirmed at the UC Board of Regents meeting Thursday. Read More…
Selected faculty members and students will meet at an on-campus stakeholders’ meeting Friday with the advisory committee chosen to recommend a replacement for outgoing UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. At the meeting, which will be held at Clark Kerr campus, faculty members selected by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Read More…
The night before Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced that he will be stepping down at the end of this calendar year, an ASUC Senate committee voted not to support a bill that would have put a referendum before students asking if the ASUC should call for Birgeneau’s resignation. In a campuswide email Read More…
The UC Berkeley Financial Aid and Scholarships Office released the scholarship application for students who would receive private financial aid under the first part of the California DREAM Act starting January 2012. The $8,000 Berkeley Undergraduate Dream Act Scholarship — which was formed after Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 130 Read More…
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Saturday requiring UC, CSU and community college student government bodies to pay for stipends, reimbursements or benefits for the service of students, regardless of their immigration status. The bill — authored by Assemblymember Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens — will ultimately allow undocumented students within Read More…
Ju Hong, arrested, looked across the table into the eyes of his enemy. But Hong, undocumented, felt liberated and empowered — even though the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer standing a few feet from him could begin his deportation process with a stroke of the pen. “I’m undocumented, unafraid, Read More…
The ASUC Senate unanimously passed a bill Wednesday night urging Gov. Jerry Brown to sign the second part of the California DREAM Act — AB 131 — that was approved last week by the state Senate and Assembly. The bill, passed with a vote of 19-0, will be sent to Read More…
UC Berkeley has started fundraising for a scholarship pool earmarked for the campus’ undocumented students. The philanthropy campaign was started by UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau shortly after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the first part of the California DREAM Act — AB 130 — in July, which allows undocumented students Read More…
Like many other immigrants, ASUC Senator-elect Ju Hong came to the United States in search of a better life. Hong, 21, lived in South Korea until he was 11 years old. Financial difficulties became a pressing issue when his family’s dream of a owning a small restaurant business drove them Read More…