Campus Shared Services

The deficit decreased from $150 million in fiscal year 2016 to $77 million at the close of fiscal year 2017 — surpassing the campus’s goal of $110 million, Christ said at the meeting.

The campus announced G. Steven Martin, campus professor emeritus of cell and developmental biology, as its new interim vice chancellor for research in an email from Chancellor Carol Christ sent to the campus community Thursday afternoon. His appointment will be effective 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.

Campus leadership engaged in a roundtable discussion with staff members Thursday to address campus plans to solve current financial challenges as well as concerns about organizational changes to the campus.

A study released this month by Occidental College Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, or UEPI, found that more than 70 percent of the University of California’s clerical, administrative and support workers suffer from food insecurity.

Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced sweeping changes to two major cost-cutting efforts at an Academic Senate meeting Tuesday.

Amid continuing financial challenges, the campus announced comprehensive cost-cutting measures Wednesday morning, with plans to reimagine administrative systems, investments and discretionary expenses.

Union members gathered in front of California Hall on Tuesday afternoon to protest the December layoffs in UC Berkeley’s Campus Shared Services and submit a petition signed by those in opposition to the staff reduction.

Fourteen union members gathered in front of Haas Pavilion on Thursday night with flyers and posters to spread awareness about December layoffs in UC Berkeley’s Campus Shared Services.