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On Friday, a group of protesters gathered on Sproul Plaza to rally against the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, on Mauna Kea, a mountain that is held sacred by the Native Hawaiian people, who are also known as Kanaka Maoli.
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Members of the UC Board of Regents gathered at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center on Thursday to talk about the state and UC Office of the President, or UCOP, budgets for 2019-20, the board’s goals to improve and create more academic programs in the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and a proposition for a new cohort-based tuition plan.
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The board met Wednesday to review the 2019-20 budget, appoint Jamaal Muwwakkil as the 2020-21 student regent and review basic needs within the UC system.
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On Tuesday, the UC Board of Regents’ Special Committee on Basic Needs met at UCSF to discuss housing, food and financial insecurity for students across UC campuses.
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John Pérez was elected as the 2019-20 chair of the UC Board of Regents in May and started working in the new position July 1.
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The UC Retirement Administration Service Center rolled out a new record-keeping system in March. Now, that system is causing delays in service and backlogs of retirement documentation for more than 100 newly retiring UC employees.
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Faculty from UC campuses across the state pushed for greater job stability in negotiations between the University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, and the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, at UC Berkeley on Wednesday.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts chose 39 researchers to be recognized as Pew scholars and fellows, seven of whom come from the UC system, according to a press release from the UC Office of the President on Friday.
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The main issue, as voiced by both the city and the campus, is the level of compensation expected as a result of student population growth. With enrollment projected to raise 34 percent from 2005 to 2023 at the campus, the city worries that supporting a growing student population will be costly.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Dream and Promise Act, or HR 6, on Tuesday, which would provide pathways to citizenship for more than 2 million people, including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, recipients and those with temporary protected status.
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