UC Regents to discuss social media fundraising, UC Merced development at upcoming meeting

The UC Board of Regents will meet Wednesday and Thursday this week at the UCSF Mission Bay campus.
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The UC Board of Regents will meet Wednesday and Thursday this week at the UCSF Mission Bay campus.

The UC Board of Regents will meet Wednesday and Thursday this week at the UCSF Mission Bay campus to discuss development on the UC Merced campus, the Working Smarter initiative, a new social media fundraising program and selection criteria for the next UC system president. Read More…

Rankings show UC and CSU tuition fastest growing in the nation

The cost of tuition at various UC and CSU campuses is rising faster than costs at other colleges around the country, according to a Department of Education college cost ranking published Tuesday. The rankings calculate increases from the 2008-09 academic year to the 2010-11 academic year and show that the UC Read More…

UC Board of Regents July meeting preview

The UC Board of Regents will meet on Wednesday and Thursday for the remainder of their three-day meeting at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus, where a wide range of issues spanning the diversity of the university’s student body to a controversial tuition increase spurred by the state’s increased cuts Read More…

Chair Sherry Lansing and the UC Board of Regents considered plans to address the university’s deficit at Thursday’s meeting.

UC considers alternate strategies to handle budget reductions

SAN FRANCISCO — With the recently approved fee increases covering only a little more than a quarter of the budget deficit for the University of California, talk at the Thursday meeting of the UC Board of Regents focused on a wide range of alternatives for dealing with the remaining budget Read More…

Initiative saves UC $157 million over past year

SAN FRANCISCO — Though student concern at the UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday centered around ongoing increases in tuition and fees, administrative efficiency programs have saved the UC system over $157 million over the past year, according to results released at the meeting. The Working Smarter Initiative — launched Read More…