New UC transfer policy focuses on degrees while sidestepping economic realities
Beneath the new transfer policy’s vision of educational equity lurks a total disregard for the needs of transfer students once they arrive at UC.
Read More…
Tag Archives: University of California
‘Strengthen the transfer pipeline’: UC to guarantee admission to qualifying California community college students
California community college students are now guaranteed admission to a UC campus as transfer students — that is, if they meet a certain, yet-to-be-determined standard.
Read More…
‘Equal rights, equal pay’: UC labor union protests income inequality on 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death
More than 400 workers, students and community members took to the streets Wednesday in a rally organized by AFSCME Local 3299 to protest widening racial and gender pay gaps in the UC workforce.
Read More…
Black women face greatest income disparities of low-wage workers in UC system, study finds
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees spokesperson John de los Angeles said women and people of color earn as much as 21 percent less than their white male counterparts, according to the study. He added that it takes six years for Black women to catch up to the starting wage of white males.
Read More…
UC Berkeley libraries retain global, political focus since founding
The C.V. Starr East Asian Library, the South/Southeast Asia Library and the Ethnic Studies Library become increasingly important to UC Berkeley.
Read More…
‘These are hallowed grounds’: UC system celebrates 150th anniversary
The UC was chartered on March 23, 1868 when California governor Henry Haight signed the Organic Act, which created California’s first land-grant university. The road to Charter Day was paved years before this, however, with a little help from former president Abraham Lincoln.
Read More…
A legacy of speaking truths: Poetry as politics at UC Berkeley
The use of poetry as a political tool proves fitting at an institution widely recognized for a commitment to academic excellence and revolutionary ideals.
Read More…
Berkeley news quiz, week of March 11
Did you follow the news in Berkeley this week?
Berkeley news quiz, week of March 4
Did you follow the news in Berkeley this week?n
72 percent of UC faculty and administrators are white, report finds
California public college student populations are becoming more diverse, but faculty makeup has not kept pace with this trend, a report by the Campaign for College Opportunity has found.
Read More…
