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The UC Board of Regents is scheduled to vote on a proposed student tuition increase, which, if approved, would increase tuition for the 2018-2019 academic year by 2.5 percent, at their meeting next week.
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Gov. Jerry Brown released his proposal for the 2018 California state budget plan Wednesday, but the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, reported in a press release the same day that the 3 percent increase in the education budget is less than expected.
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Educational Strategic Planning LLC, or ESP, conducted a study on the Berkeley Unified School District’s special education program and services that revealed issues such as overidentification of special education students, overspending and conflicts between parents and the schools.
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Jason Kander, former secretary of state of Missouri and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri in 2016, spoke about his stance on voting rights and the role of the next generation at a campus event Thursday evening.
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UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ is set to give the keynote speech at the 2017 Winter Commencement on Sunday, Dec. 17.
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Mitch Negus was a notoriously slow athlete as a child. But Sunday, Negus, 23, earned seventh place in the annual Berkeley Half Marathon with a time of 1:15:34.
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Underneath the “Beat Cal” sign hanging from a Stanford University building swim many rubber duckies silently quacking their support for UC Berkeley in the upcoming Big Game.
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The city of Berkeley planning staff published a “pipeline report” that outlines current and upcoming housing projects in Berkeley.
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The Berkeley City Council plans to discuss the renovation of the Berkeley Marina Fishing Pier on Tuesday in their council meeting.
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The University of California asked a federal judge Wednesday to keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program operational while its lawsuit against the Trump administration is still pending.
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