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If you were of the gambling persuasion in 2010, you could have come up to any two freshmen at UC Berkeley and bet that they came from another state. You would have been correct 29 percent of the time — not great odds — but based on biennial figures gathered
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The UC Berkeley Financial Aid and Scholarships Office released the scholarship application for students who would receive private financial aid under the first part of the California DREAM Act starting January 2012. The $8,000 Berkeley Undergraduate Dream Act Scholarship — which was formed after Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 130
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Changes to UC admissions requirements aiming to broaden the quantity of applications reviewed by the university will affect the way high school students prepare for applying to the university. The admissions policy revisions, devised by the systemwide Academic Senate Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, include removing the eligibility
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A union representing over 3,000 lecturers almost unanimously ratified a labor agreement with the University of California in an online vote last week, according to a Monday press release from the UC Office of the President. The newly ratified contract includes a 3 percent merit raise for the 2011-12 academic
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University of California faculty are among the newest members of the social movement known as Occupy Wall Street, which aims to promote awareness of the various forms of economic, political and social inequalities in the United States. The Council of UC Faculty Associations — an umbrella organization for the associations
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The University of California and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees ratified an agreement on a contract that will affect more than 20,000 employees at UC campuses and medical centers, the UC Office of the President announced Monday. The contract will increase wages for patient care and
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In light of recent economic hardships throughout the country, universities nationwide experienced an overall drop in first-time graduate student enrollment rates in fall 2010 for the first time since fall 2003, and UC Berkeley was no exception. According to campus admissions data, UC Berkeley saw a drop in the incoming
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The University of California announced Tuesday that it has reached two tentative agreements with the American Federation of Teachers union to provide various benefits and increases for the university’s more than 350 librarians and 3,000 lecturers. Under the tentative agreement for lecturers, a number of conditions will go into effect,
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In the wake of the tragic end to a demonstration staged a few weeks ago, a new tree-sitter has once again turned People’s Park into the site of protest. Self-named Littlebird climbed into the same tree occupied in at least two previous tree-sits near the corner of Haste and Bowditch streets
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With national uproar sparked by a bake sale set to descend Tuesday on Sproul Plaza, the root of the issue might go overlooked — SB 185, a piece of affirmative action-like legislation currently awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature. The constitutionality of the bill — which would allow the UC and
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