Shirin Ghaffary

When Dirks assumes office on June 1, he may find an unlikely ally in Brown at a time in which state funding has fallen to constitute just over 10 percent of UC Berkeley’s budget.

About 15 protesters dressed in black and holding flower-adorned coffins held a “Funeral for Worker’s Rights” on Sproul Plaza Thursday morning in protest of proposed cuts to UC workers’ benefits.

Around 40 UC Berkeley students traveled to Sacramento to join a group of 2,000 protesters demonstrating in the March for Higher Education, a lobbying effort to increase state funding for universities and community colleges.

UC President Mark Yudof has dismissed criticism that the UC is a dangerously politicized institution, according to letter correspondence released last week between his office and the California Association of Scholars.

UC Berkeley launched an online survey in an effort to gauge the quality of the campus climate on Tuesday.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau will lead a national initiative to study and support public universities following his retirement as chancellor in June.

Despite proposed increases in state funding for higher education, members of the UC Board of Regents expressed concerns about Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget, citing it as a temporary solution to long-term financial woes at their meeting Thursday.

The University of California has decided to suspend use of its redesigned logo following the public outcry over the new logo, which erupted last week.

At the second day of their three-day meeting Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents and various UC administrators debated the merits of adopting a formal policy to increase the enrollment of out-of-state students at the system’s nine undergraduate campuses.