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This lawsuit comes amid a federal lawsuit against Harvard University, which is similarly accused of discriminating against Asian American students in its admissions practices.
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On Jan. 17, 2018, Huron released a report that outlined potential strategies to make UCOP more efficient. Now, some of those suggestions are being acted upon. Klein said in an email that it is unclear what the structural overhaul will cost in total as they do not have a final invoice. On Nov. 14, the Compliance and Audit Committee will meet at the UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco to discuss how much will be spent on these changes, according to Student Regent Devon Graves.
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The UC Board of Regents will convene this week to approve the annual budget and discuss two key items about basic needs across UC campuses.
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After more than a year of negotiations, the California Nurses Association, or CNA, and the university came to a tentative five-year contract agreement that would provide additional protections for UC nurses.
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In the five years that Jagdeep Bachher — UC chief investment officer and vice president of investments — has been in office, more than three-quarters of his initial staff members have left.
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Usually, there are only two vacancies, which are due to regents reaching the end of their terms, according to Student Regent Devon Graves, and this year was former regents William De La Peña and Bruce Varner’s turn.
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Former president Barack Obama’s policies, which outlined ways that schools could legally use race as a factor in admissions decisions, have not been in effect in California since Proposition 209 passed in 1996, banning race as a consideration in admissions.
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Bonnie Reiss, a UC regent and senior adviser to former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, died from cancer at 62 in her home in Malibu on Tuesday morning.
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Students from across the UC system attended a hearing held by the California Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance on Tuesday afternoon to lobby for increased state funding for the university.
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University of California President Janet Napolitano is contemplating a structural overhaul to her office after obtaining the results of a report conducted by Huron Consulting Group, an independent professional consulting group.
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