A lawsuit filed May 16 against the UC Board of Regents and a UC Berkeley housing employee found fault with the university’s response to alleged reports of domestic abuse on university premises. The lawsuit was filed by the parents of 22-year-old UC Berkeley alumna Milanca Lopez and her 6-year-old son Read More…
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…
A report released Tuesday warns that the recent trend of cuts in state funding for higher education not only poses harms the quality of student education but also poses a risk to state economies. Read More…
A special committee of the UC Board of Regents met Tuesday to begin the process of selecting a successor to UC President Mark Yudof. Read More…
UC Berkeley is at risk of becoming financially unsustainable according to a study conducted by Bain & Company. Read More…
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…
Gov. Jerry Brown released the revised state budget Monday, which predicts and prepares for cuts to primary, secondary and higher education, among other items pertaining to state funding. In a press conference Monday morning, Brown talked about the cuts that reflect state revenues that were lower than anticipated. The plan Read More…
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…
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…
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau hopes to call upon state governments and private donors to match federal funding to public research universities in a new proposal. The proposal, which is still in its initial planning stages, would redirect $1 billion in federal funds over the course of 10 years to Read More…
