
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announces intent to change Title IX policy
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced her intent to change the current Title IX policy Thursday.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced her intent to change the current Title IX policy Thursday.
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SB 331, which was authored by California State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, will take effect Jan. 1, 2018. The bill will give survivors evidentiary privilege, which means that any discourse between a domestic violence survivor and a counselor will remain confidential. Before SB 331, according to Jackson, this privilege only existed for survivors of sexual assault.
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The University of California reached a $1.3 million settlement with the United States Department of Labor in late May after the university was found to have underpaid thousands of university employees.
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BAMPFA has adopted an ambitious plan for achieving a targeted budget deficit reduction of $582,000 set by the recently unveiled campus fiscal year 2018 budget, including plans to generate $850,000 in new revenue, increase its endowment by $5 million and reduce the number of scheduled exhibitions as part of cost-saving measures.
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The campus has unveiled its response to an imposing financial crisis with its 2017-18 budget, highlighted by more than $20 million in cuts to academic, research and administrative expenses.
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Former chancellor Nicholas Dirks will be paid $434,000 by UC Berkeley through the next academic year, more than 80 percent of his pay as the campus’s former top administrator — even though Dirks will not return to teaching on campus until fall 2018.
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Under a new University of California hiring policy, prospective university employees will no longer be asked about prior convictions in their initial employment applications. This push to “ban the box” will take effect as early as October, just over a year after UC Berkeley became the first UC campus to institute the policy.
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UC Berkeley was ranked the fourth best college overall and the number one college for business majors in MONEY Magazine’s 2017 Best Colleges for Your Money rankings.
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“My rights were not read. They did not give me counsel. Nobody knew. I literally just disappeared,” Chamu alleged.
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In 1952, UC Berkeley discarded a presidential system and adopted a chancellorship.
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