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For the first time in 17 years, the Governor’s Advisory Selection Committee for the Regents of the University of California was convened to aid a California governor in the selection of a new regent.
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A panel of experts convened Tuesday in Berkeley to unveil a policy paper affirming the possibility of restoring tuition-free public higher education in California.
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Amid concerns from employees and faculty, the UC Office of the President fielded questions and solicited feedback at a live webinar Monday on proposed retirement benefits plans.
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The university’s about 8,300 service workers announced Thursday that they intend to strike across the UC system from March 3 to 7. University patient-care workers, represented by the same union, announced they will strike in sympathy.
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The UC Regents unanimously approved changes to its Faculty Code of Conduct Thursday, including new provisions protecting faculty’s freedom to express opinions regarding institutional matters.
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Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation that would have given the University of California’s more than 14,000 graduate student research assistants the same rights that other UC employees have under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act. These rights include the freedom to form a union if a majority of
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If passed, a bill in the California State Legislature sponsored by Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, could impact the tenure process at public universities in California, including the University of California.
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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
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