Frances Fitzgerald

You may have thought marriage had become obsolete among millennials, but Bohemianism has gotten expensive at UC Berkeley.

He was studying abroad from France at UC Berkeley, and I was a freshman, meaning we were equally new and lost on campus. He asked for my number so that he could “borrow my textbook,” and it started off the way any relationship does.

With the contract between the University of California and the postdoctoral researchers’ union set to expire in two weeks, postdocs at seven UC campuses delivered to their respective chancellors more than 3,000 signatures, calling for the university to adopt their terms in the next contract.

The University of California announced Thursday that it has launched a new website that streamlines information on student-veteran services, which the university has expanded over the past 10 years.

A Saudi business mogul has partnered with the campus Haas School of Business to launch a free online education program beginning later this month.

At its Wednesday meeting, the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education discussed several new priorities for the upcoming school year.

Campus officials introduced far-reaching plans to improve the campus climate for African American students, faculty and staff in a campus-wide email on Thursday.

Among the thousands of undergraduates beginning their first classes at UC Berkeley this fall, 21 freshmen from sub-Saharan Africa will form the largest group of students entering the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program.

Amber Whitson is a former resident of the Albany Bulb, a landmass north of the Berkeley Marina that about 70 homeless people inhabited before their removal last April, she said.