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Campus joins movement demanding access to research

UC Berkeley is joining a nationwide effort to increase the availability of academic research to the public in light of rising journal subscription costs and limited access

UC Berkeley undergraduate students Tony Chen and Rodrigo Ochigame are co-founders of The Open Access Initiative, which attempts to garner support for free online access to research.
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UC Berkeley undergraduate students Tony Chen and Rodrigo Ochigame are co-founders of The Open Access Initiative, which attempts to garner support for free online access to research.

On April 20, a mass email was sent out to UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff members asking them to sign a petition in support of free, open access to research publications. Read More…

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Yudof selects new chancellor for UC San Diego

UC President Mark Yudof has selected current dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering Pradeep K. Khosla to serve as the next chancellor of UC San Diego, he announced Thursday. Khosla comes to UCSD after a tenure at Carnegie Mellon during which he successfully led efforts to double the college’s Read More…

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Brown’s May Revise to impact decisions at Wednesday’s Regents meeting

At its meeting Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents will debate another system-wide tuition hike, beginning a longer discussion about reconciling reduced state support over the next year. While the university escaped significantly deeper cuts under Gov. Jerry Brown’s recently published revised budget proposal — informally called the May Revise Read More…

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Mark Yudof, President of the University of California, and Sherry Lansing, Chairman of the Board of Regents converse at the September 2011 regents meeting.

UC students could face new round of fee hikes

Student fees may rise 6 percent unless state funding is increased. Double digit fee increase could come if November tax initiative fails

UC students could see their tuition rise significantly if state funding does not increase and Gov. Jerry Brown’s November tax initiative fails, according to a newly released UC proposal to be discussed at next week’s UC Board of Regents meeting in Sacramento. UC administrators say they would have to raise Read More…