‘She made people feel special’: UC Regent Ellen Tauscher dies at 67
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UC Regent Ellen Tauscher died at Stanford University Medical Center on Monday after experiencing complications from pneumonia.
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Fate of student adviser position to be decided at Wednesday’s Board of Regents meeting
The University of California Student Association, or UCSA, is encouraging the UC Board of Regents to eliminate the Student Advisor position, stated in a letter released on Sunday.
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Student Regent Devon Graves to chair UC Board of Regents basic needs committee
Student Regent Devon Graves was appointed chair of the UC Board of Regents Special Committee on Basic Needs on Monday — marking the first time in history a student has been appointed chair of a Board of Regents committee.
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Former Berkeley Lab employee sues UC Regents over race, sex discrimination
Qu alleged that she was demoted twice, removed from her testing responsibilities and replaced with an “unqualified white male,” the complaint said.
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Libraries are the heart of UC Berkeley
The university needs to remember the values of the original charter: “to provide instruction and thorough and complete education in all departments.”
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UC system looks to overseas investment in face of potential economic decline
UC finances are up $5 billion over the last quarter, the UC Board of Regents heard at the Tuesday meeting of its investments subcommittee.
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UC Regents must be held accountable to student, staff, faculty interests with grading system
At a UC Board of Regents meeting, a few things are visibly obvious. First, attendees cannot get into the room without going through barricades and at least a dozen police officers. Second, there is a line in the middle of the room separating regents from UC staff and the public.
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UC Student Association maintained efforts to appease, collaborate with graduate students
On Oct. 11, the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly, or GA, published its stance on the viability of the University of California Student Association, or UCSA, claiming the lack of support they received in the organization rendered it necessary to create their own organization, the UC Graduate-Professional Coalition, or UCGPC. The
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Without state funding, UC left with no good options
The UC system is in a financial quandary. For years, the state’s per-student funding has fallen. That’s forced the university to pick its choice of three unique pills, each saddled with its share of negative side effects: slash the budget, raise tuition or find money elsewhere. The university has avoided
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Wealthy donors puppeteer campus administration’s decisions on free speech
As many of us have heard and read, Chancellor Carol Christ has declared 2017 a “free speech year” at UC Berkeley. To ensure the importance of “diverse” viewpoints on campus, she announced a long-term program of events — most significantly confirming the return of Milo Yiannopoulos to campus for a
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