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University Health Services, or UHS, has selected a new insurance carrier for the Student Health Insurance Plan, or SHIP, the effects of which will be seen starting fall 2019. UHS will break from Anthem Blue Cross and instead partner with Blue Shield of California, insured by Wellfleet Student, according to a
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The last four years have provided unique challenges to the chancellorship, from routine budget and funding issues to the campus’s changing political climate.
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The ASUC Senate adopted eight resolutions during its regular Wednesday night meeting, held for the first time in the new Eshleman Hall senate chambers.
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Hours after a private grievance meeting about the campus’s termination of dependent health-care coverage, University Health Services officials gave a presentation on the decision to a small crowd of distraught UC Berkeley students, union members and their families Tuesday.
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The ASUC and UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly will receive an annual $250,000 starting next academic year in a new funding model outlined by a recently revised agreement between the ASUC and campus which will oversee commercial activities carried out by student government.
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At Chancellor Nicholas Dirks’ eighth fireside chat Monday evening, female students from a variety of organizations asked him for more institutional support for women students.
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Briana Starks says that when she walked into UC Berkeley’s Early Childhood Education Program office, and watched as an admissions coordinator calculate, in front of her, how much she was saving she could not bring herself to feel much gratitude.
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At first glance, language in UC Berkeley’s student health insurance plan appears to exclude injuries incurred during riot participation. The clause, nestled in the plan’s benefit booklet, was mistakenly included when the campus entered into a contract with a new health insurance provider, Aetna, this summer.
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The UC Board of Regents will discuss a proposal for professional degree tuition at its meeting next week, which holds tuition constant for many programs but increases fees for nursing and new degree programs.
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Hundreds of UC Berkeley students and staff gathered Tuesday to celebrate Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and his wife Mary Catherine Birgeneau’s nine years of service to the university.
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