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California State Senators Loni Hancock and Carol Liu discussed the future of higher education at a packed campus forum Tuesday in an effort to raise public awareness about the relationship between government and the public university system.
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Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and interim Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Carol Christ fielded questions from concerned faculty members in an Academic Senate forum Monday, where they discussed the state of the campus’s $150 million annual budget deficit.
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A crowd comprising mostly students and faculty from the campus’s electrical engineering and computer sciences department filled Soda Hall’s HP Auditorium on Wednesday night for a town hall discussion, in response to concern spurred by long waitlists for various EECS courses.
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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.
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About 200 UC Berkeley community members gathered together outside California Hall to remember the 57 members of the campus community who died in the last year, including two students who were killed in terrorist attacks abroad.
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In response to concerns about packed waitlists in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department, the administration has said funding for instructional support — which has been incrementally boosted over the past several years — is not to blame.
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Tsu-Jae King Liu — a longtime administrator and professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department — will serve as vice provost for academic and space planning, a campuswide email announced Tuesday.
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Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) announced the donation of two decades of her congressional papers to UC Berkeley — including the largest digital collection Bancroft Library has ever received — on Thursday morning.
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Carla Hesse — dean of social sciences, executive dean of the College of Letters and Science and interim lead of the campus’s sexual harassment response — spoke with The Daily Californian on Wednesday about the changes made in response to multiple high-level cases of sexual misconduct at UC Berkeley.
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Waitlisted students face uncertainty about getting into necessary classes every semester, but this year, professors in the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences, or EECS, worry that hundreds of students will not find seats.
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