Following months of controversy, UC Berkeley announced that it will withdraw from the systemwide UC Student Health Insurance Plan in the fall. Read More…
About 200 people have signed a petition calling for the campus to allocate more funds to the Student Learning Center and pay its tutors regardless of how long they have worked at the center. Read More…
I’m not pro-ASUC. Whenever I hear the latest drama from the ASUC Senate, I sigh and wonder if any of the bills they pass will actually change the way our university functions. I recognize this is unfair for those students involved in the student government, who I know work very Read More…
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The board’s Committee on Grounds and Buildings approved the university’s 2013-14 Budget for State Capital Improvements, which requests $788.5 million from the state to fund 39 capital projects across the system. Read More…
During a recent visit to UC Santa Barbara, I noticed, for the umpteenth time, Tibetan prayer flags hanging in the least likely of places: above a liquor store entrance or dangling from an apartment building with red cups littered in the background. Perhaps I am just oversensitive to these multicolored Read More…
UC Berkeley is at risk of becoming financially unsustainable according to a study conducted by Bain & Company. Read More…
In a recently-published study co-authored by a UC Berkeley Haas School of Business professor, statistical research methods widely used by researchers were proven instead sometimes to yield false results. In the study, Leif Nelson and researchers Joseph Simmons and Uri Simonsohn from the Wharton School of Business ran a test 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…
Following a national trend of college newspapers turning to student fee referendums to ease tight budgets, The Daily Californian has campaigned for a student fee to support the newspaper’s print operations and expand its online presence. College newspapers across the country have requested student fees to support their operations — Read More…