David Alcocer

The UC system announced changes to the UC budget and policies in 2022 Multi-Year report, including a goal of adding spots for in-state students by the 2026-27 academic year. 

Plans to demolish and replace Evans Hall and renovate UC Berkeley's Bechtel Engineering Center were approved by the UC Regents Wednesday.

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the UC system’s financial, health and student success outcomes dominated discussions during the UC Board of Regents meetings Wednesday.

At Wednesday’s UC Board of Regents meetings, tuition and fee plans, the freshman pipeline and seismic safety were discussed, among other topics pertaining to the student experience.

After six years in office, UC President Janet Napolitano announced that she will step down from her position effective Aug. 1, 2020.

Members of the UC Board of Regents gathered at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center on Thursday to talk about the state and UC Office of the President, or UCOP, budgets for 2019-20, the board's goals to improve and create more academic programs in the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and a proposition for a new cohort-based tuition plan.

On Tuesday, the UC Board of Regents' Special Committee on Basic Needs met at UCSF to discuss housing, food and financial insecurity for students across UC campuses.

The UC Cultural Repatriation Policy, which was last revised in 2001, requires that campuses consult with tribal authorities in acting upon repatriation requests; tensions still exist, however, between Native American tribes and UC campuses over culturally-unidentifiable remains.

The UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday highlighted the university’s progress toward implementing the state audit’s recommendations, as well as the impacts of Gov. Jerry Brown’s May budget revision.

At its Thursday meeting, the UC Board of Regents preliminarily approved the first systemwide tuition increase since 2011, as a part of a new operating budget plan for the 2017-18 academic year.