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Grade deflation is the phenomenon in which course grades decline over time because of academic policies, student performance, culture shifts or even mere coincidence. As the ASUC academic affairs vice president, I’ve devoted around 50 weeks to deciphering the state of UC Berkeley’s academics and grading.
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Cal Lodge, an ASUC retreat lodge close to Lake Tahoe that used to be rented out to student organizations, has been sold for $502,000 to Beriha Magalli Yoho as of Jan. 17.
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The ASUC Senate passed a resolution in support of the Student Transformation through Academic Recruitment and Retention, or STARR, referendum at its regular Wednesday meeting, securing the referendum’s spot on the spring 2018 ballot.
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Berkeley Time: one of our beloved school’s greatest gifts to us. Ten minutes seems like a lot, but time flies when you’re having fun. Not.
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As many of the returning students know, the new students are about to see those campus tour guides didn’t tell them a whole lot.
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Hoping to make class registration easier for students, UC Berkeley’s Office of the Registrar recently released a supplementary search tool to help students explore class options.
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Wentworth’s name was removed as of press time from any course instruction list for the spring 2017 semester on both CalCentral and the SSEAS website, where his name was formerly displayed as an instructor for an undergraduate course.
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We’ve all been there before. Groaning in exasperation while we hop between the 12 scheduling tabs that we have open on our desktop. Somehow our schedules are still flaming hot messes despite stalking Berkeleytime, ratemyprofessor.com and Telebears CalCentral like that cute guy from last week’s frat party. Eventually we just
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More than 150 UC Berkeley students have joined a Facebook group called CalCentral Bugfinder Squad in the last week, dedicated to voicing complaints about CalCentral and the new enrollment process on the website.
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The ASUC is working to further its technological initiatives — including a restructuring of the course-planning website Berkeleytime — this year with the help of the newly created Office of the Chief Technology Officer.
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