The budget calls for a four-year tuition freeze for all students except those in professional schools, and discontinuation of a proposed unit cap ons state-subsidized coures, which could have affected 2,200 UC students in the next school year. Read More…
Gov. Jerry Brown released a revision of his previously proposed state budget Tuesday that maintains a tuition freeze, reduces the proposed funding allocation for higher education and withdraws the previously proposed unit cap. Read More…
The Fiat Lux Remix project was an intercampus and interdepartmental endeavor designed to provide “a springboard to think about our present-day university and imagine the future university we would like to create.” Read More…
The UC Board of Regents will meet in Sacramento next week to discuss Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised 2013-14 budget. Read More…
Chancellor-designate Nicholas Dirks met with students and faculty at a forum Thursday night to answer questions about his vision for UC Berkeley. Read More…
Plans to construct a new aquatic facility at UC Berkeley are welcome, but the project needs to solve conflicts with city planning before breaking ground. The $15 million facility is set to be constructed adjacent to the Tang Center on Bancroft Way in order to take some pressure off the Read More…
Let’s get this straight: online education will never completely replace in-person instruction or totally eclipse the most fundamental tenets of the traditional university. At least, it shouldn’t. Nevertheless, California State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, introduced a bill in late February that would require the 50 most impacted Read More…
I am compelled to respond to your March 22 story about the University of California’s appeal of a lower court ruling in a case brought by the media conglomerate — Reuters America — against the regents. This is not a case about the public’s right to know, nor is it Read More…
UC students shouldn’t be surprised that they are shouldering the burden of administrators’ financial mismanagement. The university has a history of solving its fiscal problems by turning to the student body. But in the case of the recently extended tuition surcharge, there appears to be no viable alternative. Students have Read More…
If begging for change on social media is the most creative fundraising program that the UC Board of Regents could come up with, the university is in serious trouble. People have been calling on the university to devise out-of-the-box funding schemes for years, but creative campaigns need to be feasible Read More…
