As an independent student newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley, the Daily Cal has been communicating important updates during this pandemic. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage.
Due to a projected cash flow crisis, the state of California could borrow as much as $200 million from the University of California in March. Despite consistently cutting the UC’s budget over the past decade, the state will look to the university’s borrowing ability — due to its high credit
Read More…
When San Diego State University approved last July that its new president would make $100,000 more than his predecessor — even in the face of cuts to higher education — many students were rightfully angry. But while the California State University system’s Jan. 25 decision to cap its presidents’ earnings
Read More…
Energy efficiency projects adopted by the University of California are resulting in more than $32 million in annual savings, according to a report presented last week to the UC Board of Regents. The UC Annual Report on Sustainable Practices, which was discussed at the Jan. 18 board meeting at UC
Read More…
A state senate bill introduced earlier this month could prohibit salary increases for University of California and California State University executives within two years of either tuition increases for students or state budget cuts. If passed, the bill, authored by state Sen. Leland Yee, D–San Francisco, would also restrict salary
Read More…
The Council of UC Faculty Associations has condemned the police action taken against protesters at UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Davis, as well as one California State University campus. The council called UCPD’s use of pepper spray at UC Davis and batons at UC Berkeley against student protesters “unprovoked, disproportional
Read More…
If you were of the gambling persuasion in 2010, you could have come up to any two freshmen at UC Berkeley and bet that they came from another state. You would have been correct 29 percent of the time — not great odds — but based on biennial figures gathered
Read More…
With national uproar sparked by a bake sale set to descend Tuesday on Sproul Plaza, the root of the issue might go overlooked — SB 185, a piece of affirmative action-like legislation currently awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature. The constitutionality of the bill — which would allow the UC and
Read More…
The closure of the California Postsecondary Education Commission this fall will mean that, for the first time in 38 years, aggregated higher education data will not be available to the public. The termination of the commission — whose website receives up to 120,000 hits a day, according to Karen Humphrey,
Read More…
As the University of California ages, so do its buildings. But as the state continues to cut funding for the UC, the university’s buildings are feeling the burden. In particular, campuses like UC Berkeley are struggling to address important issues like seismic safety in its buildings. At the core of
Read More…
A bill that aims to bring increased transparency and accountability to California’s public higher education institutions was sent to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk Thursday, following approval by the California State Senate. Authored by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, Senate Bill 8 was approved by the state Senate in a 36-1
Read More…
