The petition was initiated by UAW Local 2865 — a union representing UC student workers — on Jan. 16 calling for the UC to lift the $400,000 lifetime coverage cap and the annual $10,000 prescription drug cap from the UC SHIP in order to align the plan with the Affordable Care Act. Read More…
A record-breaking 67,658 students applied to be a part of UC Berkeley’s next freshman a class – a 10 percent increase in applicants from last year.
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Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed 2013-14 state budget rolls back higher education cuts of recent years with improved funding but confronts California’s public universities about eliminating costly inefficiencies. Read More…
Gov. Jerry Brown proposed an increase in state funding of $250 million for the UC in his 2013-14 proposed budget, released Thursday.
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The University of California has decided to suspend use of its redesigned logo following the public outcry over the new logo, which erupted last week. Read More…
A recent California state auditor’s report, which investigated matters such as bribery, conspiracy to commit fraud and improper overtime pay, singled out an employee at the University of California’s Office of the President for receiving what it calls “wasteful” reimbursement for travel expenses. Read More…
While the response to the new UC logo certainly hasn’t been positive, the move did win the support of the some folks at the University of Washington. Read More…
Imagine the development of the University of California as a phenomenon of astrophysics. The first sparks of interest in creating a public university came amid the Gold Rush, California’s Big Bang if there ever was one. Out of those sparks, a small college was established, which in relatively short order Read More…
In the aftermath of Proposition 30, the ASUC cannot rest on its laurels. Education was held hostage by California lawmakers in the sights of a gun whose trigger would have been pulled if the proposition failed. Though the success of the proposition means that the trigger has remained locked, it Read More…
At its meeting Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents approved the UC’s 2013-2014 budget — despite objections from Gov. Jerry Brown and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom that the plan is unrealistic. The plan calls for state funding to the University of California to increase by more than $267 million next Read More…
