Following months of controversy, UC Berkeley announced that it will withdraw from the systemwide UC Student Health Insurance Plan in the fall. Read More…
UC campuses have seen a surge in freshman applications this year, with especially high numbers of nonresident and Latino applicants. This year, Chicano and Latino applicants are for the first time the largest ethnic group represented in the overall UC applicant pool. Read More…
There’s a difference between theory and reality. In theory, UC Irvine alumnus Chris Campbell’s plan to freeze undergraduate public college tuition at first-year rates is good. But in reality, the plan won’t work, and could very well do more harm than good. Freezing tuition does not address the real problem: the state government. Read More…
A branch of UC Irvine’s student government has passed a resolution urging the UCI administration divest from companies supporting Israel’s anti-Palestinian policies it alleges violate human rights. Read More…
In a time of economic hardship when the entire University of California system must already fend off the advances of private schools seeking to recruit top faculty and staff members, there is no sense in UC campuses competing with one another for talented employees. But that is exactly what is Read More…
In an effort to address the growing need for student housing under the constraints of continuing budget cuts for the university, UC Berkeley is considering private developers to oversee future housing projects. The first student housing project to be considered on campus for private and public collaboration is currently planned Read More…
State Republicans are proposing a plan to avoid possible cuts to public education through budget solutions instead of the tax initiative proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown. Should Brown’s tax initiative fail to pass in November, the UC and CSU systems would suffer trigger cuts of $200 million each, according to Brown’s Read More…
UC Berkeley is still the best public university in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual National University rankings released Wednesday. Read More…
On Thursday the UC Regents Committee on Compensation approved compensations and salary adjustments for several high-level UC employees, including Ann Madden Rice, CEO of UC Davis Medical Center and Claire Pomeroy, vice chancellor for human health sciences at UC Davis.
UC Berkeley is at risk of becoming financially unsustainable according to a study conducted by Bain & Company. Read More…
