Kiavash and his older sister, who also came to campus at the age of 12, are the youngest students to enroll at UC Berkeley in at least 17 years. Read More…
The UC Board of Regents will meet next week at UCSF Mission Bay in San Francisco to discuss the selection of the 2014-15 student regent, the 2013-14 and preliminary 2014-15 budget and a report on the University of California’s efforts to implement online education programs. Read More…
Here is a glimpse of the austere world California is plunging into if Congress fails to get its act together soon: The state could lose as much as $795,000 in funding for assistance to domestic violence victims, about $87.6 million for primary and secondary education will be lost, around 9,600 Read More…
Thursday, protesters will attempt to rekindle the spirit generated by the Occupy Cal movement on campus last fall with a new set of demonstrations. Set to coincide with the third day of the UC Board of Regents meeting and the day campus professor Robert Reich spoke to thousands on Sproul Plaza Read More…
UCSF will begin looking at different ways to address its unique financial and administrative challenges with the approval of a new advisory board for the campus. Read More…
A shift in the way the UC Office of the President gathers funds from each campus has caused some concern about the impact on student fees and the financial state of individual campuses. In previous academic years, revenue generated from individual campuses had been collected and then redistributed across the Read More…
From 2001-02 to 2010-11, the University of California saw an overall increase in private support as it ramped up efforts to garner donations due to state budget cuts — a trend that may be slowing this year. Over the course of fiscal year 2010-11, the UC received almost $1.6 billion Read More…
Members of a UC Berkeley cost-cutting initiative held an event Thursday to explain how current and future projects would streamline existing administrative services. Ten project teams of the controversial Operational Excellence initiative presented timelines for implementing their projects, which range from streamlining administrative services such as timekeeping, human resources and Read More…
Later this month, the UC Board of Regents will meet for the second time this year to discuss and take action on a variety of issues, including campus protests and private support to the university. The meeting, which is scheduled for March 27-29, will return to UC San Francisco’s Mission Read More…
The retirement of Lawrence Pitts, provost and executive vice president of academic affairs for the UC, has been temporarily delayed as the search for his successor continues, according to UC spokesperson Dianne Klein. Pitts announced last year that he would retire in February, after three years as UC provost. But Read More…
