Following a similar action taken by the UC Student Association, the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly voted Thursday to pass a resolution denouncing HR 35, a state Assembly measure aimed at curbing anti-Semitism at the state’s higher education institutions. Read More…
The role of affirmative action in the university admissions process will once again be brought before the U.S. Supreme Court and into the national spotlight this week, representing the next step in a long history of debates that has often found itself played out at the University of California. Read More…
UCLA-affiliated National Dream University — a project that would provide low-cost education through a one-year certificate program geared toward illegal immigrants — has been halted due to a lack of necessary approval by UCLA leadership. The proposed university, which was to result from a collaboration between UCLA’s Center for Labor Read More…
Ten months after campus police on UC campuses made national news for using batons and pepper spray on student protesters last November, the UC Office of the President released the final version of a report commissioned by the University to review existing police and protest management policies Thursday.
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The second day of the UC Board of Regents’ three-day meeting was dominated by discussions about how proposed strategies to combat the university’s budget shortfall would affect the ethnic diversity of its student body, quality of education and financial affordability for low- and middle-income students. Read More…
UC President Mark Yudof has awarded former UC president and UC San Diego chancellor Richard Atkinson the UC Presidential Medal, officials announced Monday. “Richard has re-defined the relationship between academia and industry, re-shaped the field of university administration and helped revolutionize scholarly disciplines ranging from experimental psychology to applied mathematics,” Read More…
The threat of a UC and CSU tuition hike in the middle of the 2012-13 academic year could increase college student voter turnout for the November election. Read More…
UC Berkeley’s independent Police Review Board released an official report Wednesday on last year’s Nov. 9 Occupy Cal protests. The report outlines the board’s review of the Nov. 9 occurrences including the confrontations between protesters and UCPD officers and whether the day’s events align with normal campus protocol. In a Read More…
In an interview Tuesday, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau responded to criticism of the controversial report he and other campus officials released Monday urging for increased local governance at UC campuses. The proposal — which recommends that campuses be given control over approval of capital projects, academic programs and salaries Read More…
The UC Board of Regents’ meeting came to a halt at approximately 11:40 a.m. at UC San Francisco-Mission Bay when demonstrators overwhelmed communication during an extended public comments session. Protesters, in solidarity with the Occupy movement, began to hold a meeting of their own once the regents left and introduced Read More…
