Berkeley Global Campus

UCPD bomb technicians responded to a report of a suspicious package at the Richmond Field Station on Monday.

The last four years have provided unique challenges to the chancellorship, from routine budget and funding issues to the campus’s changing political climate.

An emailed statement from Lalanne at the time of his resignation shows that administrators’ move to eliminate the vice chancellorship prompted Lalanne’s resignation — not the other way around.

Vice Chancellor for Real Estate Robert Lalanne, who oversaw construction, development and maintenance of campus property, resigned Monday.

Former UC Berkeley School of Law dean Sujit Choudhry sued the UC Board of Regents — among other university-related parties — on Thursday, alleging that he was the victim of racial discrimination and that the university was attempting to deprive him of his reputation and career.

The estimated $3 billion Berkeley Global Campus project the campus had been working toward since 2014 will be suspended indefinitely in light of UC Berkeley’s budget deficit, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced at a meeting Thursday.

Even after former vice chancellor for research Graham Fleming resigned last year amid sexual harassment allegations, the campus continued to pay him his administrative salary for nearly a year.

Campus leadership and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory held a meeting Thursday to hear the concerns of the city of Richmond — represented by the Community Working Group, or CWG – regarding the development effects of the Berkeley Global Campus, or BGC.

A report was presented at a Thursday meeting in the campus’s Multicultural Community Center to discuss campus initiatives to improve food justice and community health in Richmond.

About 70 protesters rallied Thursday, calling for a legally binding community benefits agreement to ensure that the Berkeley Global Campus lifts the community rather than displaces residents upon its construction.