In recent weeks, officials who oversee the UC Student Health Insurance Program, now in place on all UC campuses, announced that the program is carrying a projected $57 million deficit and that the increased cost could very well be passed along to UC students in the form of notably higher Read More…
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees protested at the UC Office of the President after they’d protested at UC Berkeley earlier in the day. Read more here.
Op-ed perpetuated misleading claims about UC administration In his recent op-ed “UC funding fight continues,” Nicolas Kitchel rightly congratulates students for rallying behind Proposition 30 and helping to stave off crippling cuts to the University of California. But in his call for continued student activism, he recycles the tired and Read More…
Online education has come to the forefront of the UC agenda following a push by Gov. Jerry Brown and the UC Board of Regents to solve the university’s fiscal problems despite an unclear business model.
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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…
On Wednesday, the second of this week’s UC Board of Regents meeting at the UCSF Mission Bay campus focused on the system-wide expansion of online education and its implications for the UC. Read More…
The UC Board of Regents confirmed the appointment of Nicholas B. Dirks as UC Berkeley’s next chancellor at a meeting Tuesday morning. Read More…
A massive blue banner looms over Terminal 2’s security checkpoint at the Oakland International Airport. “By the time you reach your destination we’ll probably have a new invention,” it reads. “UC researchers average 4 inventions a day — constantly moving California forward.” “It’s clever,” said Arnold Asuncion, a chemical engineering Read More…
An academic outreach program for low-income and underrepresented minority high school and community college students moved its headquarters to UC Berkeley Sept. 24 to collaborate with the campus Division of Equity and Inclusion. The Puente Project, which provides mentoring, counseling and tutoring services to students at 57 community colleges and Read More…
The UC released its 2011 payroll report Thursday, showing that while payroll increased from 2010, UC employee compensation lagged below market levels. Systemwide payroll increased from roughly $10 billion in 2010 to $10.6 billion in 2011. This increase was attributed to a “combination of factors, including restoration of furlough reductions, increased Read More…