Roderic Park, a former top-ranking UC Berkeley administrator and professor of botany and plant biology, died in his home last Friday. He was 81.
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The UC Board of Regents discussed a new social media fundraising campaign, reviewed the Working Smarter cost saving program and approved capital projects Wednesday morning during the first day of their March meeting. Read More…
The UC Board of Regents will meet Wednesday and Thursday this week at the UCSF Mission Bay campus to discuss development on the UC Merced campus, the Working Smarter initiative, a new social media fundraising program and selection criteria for the next UC system president. Read More…
UCLA was more selective than UC Berkeley for fall 2012 in-state applicants, data from the University of California Office of the President released Tuesday show. Fall 2012 admissions rates for Californians applying to the Los Angeles campus stood at 17.7 percent this year, while the admission rate of Californian applicants Read More…
Next Wednesday, UC Student Regent Alfredo Mireles Jr. and Student Regent-designate Jonathan Stein will hold a recruitment event at UC Berkeley for students interested in becoming a student regent. At the event, which will be held from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the campus multicultural center, Mireles and Stein Read More…
SAN FRANCISCO — The UC Board of Regents’ meeting — held via teleconference at four campuses — came to a halt Monday morning when demonstrators overwhelmed board members by holding their own meetings in solidarity with the Occupy movement. Just as board members were beginning the open session of their Read More…
The state Public Works Board voted unanimously to authorize the sale of $65.2 million in bonds to fund the replacement of Campbell Hall. The vote was passed at a meeting of the board Thursday morning, along with bond measures to fund a seismic retrofitting of UCLA’s South Tower and construction Read More…
A public works board meeting Thursday will determine the fate of the majority of the funding for the demolition and reconstruction of UC Berkeley’s Campbell Hall. The State Public Works Board will vote on whether to authorize the sale of $65.2 million in state bonds for the building, which will Read More…
With a controversial bake sale at UC Berkeley bringing attention to SB 185, the UC Student Association orchestrated systemwide call-in events Tuesday which saw hundreds of students across the state call Gov. Jerry Brown’s office in support of the bill. Every UC campus student association, with the exception of UC Davis Read More…
The Berkeley College Republicans have recently drawn the attention of local news media, having stirred controversy throughout campus for their decision to hold an “affirmative action bake sale” to coincide with SB 185, a bill that would allow the UCs and CSUs to utilize ethnicity in the applications process. The Read More…