As an independent student newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley, the Daily Cal has been communicating important updates during this pandemic. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage.
On Tuesday morning, UC President Mark Yudof met with Student Regent Alfredo Mireles, Jr. and Student Regent-designate Jonathan Stein to discuss issues including the cancellation of the UC Board of Regents meeting, protests against budget cuts taking place across the university and the recent use of police force at UC
Read More…
Lower Sproul’s renovation would have reached one of its final major hurdles before the UC Board of Regents Wednesday, when campus leaders from UC Berkeley were prepared to make their case for the multimillion dollar construction project. But with the board’s meeting’s postponement, campus administrators and student leaders are going
Read More…
Since May 30, the University of California has reached agreement on or awaits ratification of contracts with unions representing more than 45,000 workers across the system. The multiyear contracts span five unions, which represent workers across fields including the university police force, lecturers and nurses. The university has reached contract
Read More…
The UC Board of Regents announced Monday morning its decision to reschedule and possibly relocate the upcoming Board of Regents meeting. In a press release, the UC Office of the President stated that the decision to postpone the meeting — originally scheduled for this Wednesday and Thursday — was made
Read More…
The UC Board of Regents has decided to cancel its meeting this week over fears for public safety, according to an announcement from the UC Office of the President. The announcement, made by board Chair Sherry Lansing, board Vice Chair Bruce Varner and UC President Mark Yudof, was made Monday
Read More…
Along with the Nov. 9 Day of Action on the UC Berkeley campus, 10 other demonstrations took place Wednesday at college campuses throughout the state. The statewide protests were intended to mark the beginning of a week of protests leading up to the meetings of the CSU Board of Trustees
Read More…
The University of California announced Tuesday that it has reached a tentative five-year deal with the Coalition of University Employees — an independent, member-run labor union representing clerical employees — on wages, benefits and working conditions. The tentative agreement would affect more than 12,500 clerical employees — most commonly administrative
Read More…
In an era of dwindling state support for the University of California, UC President Mark Yudof announced a proposal to request $2.8 billion from the state to fund the university for the 2012-13 fiscal year at a news media briefing at the UC Office of the President in Downtown Oakland
Read More…
The UC Board of Regents’ Committee on Compliance and Audit met Monday to discuss annual audit reports and ethics and compliance activities. The meeting, held via teleconference, was purely discussion-based and mostly consisted of committee members attempting to clarify parts of audit reports by posing questions to the committee. Among those
Read More…
Diverging accounts of how to best improve and reform UC governance came up for debate at the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate meeting Wednesday afternoon. At the meeting, faculty members debated the merits of a minority and majority report submitted by the Senate Special Committee on University Governance and
Read More…
