Dianne Klein

Pranav Jandhyala, a senior at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California, was ecstatic when he learned that he had gained admission to UC Berkeley’s class of 2020, the campus’s most selective class in history.

A UC task force submitted its recommendations on Friday regarding new retirement benefit options for future UC employees to UC President Janet Napolitano.

In anticipation of a substantial enrollment boost of 6,500 undergraduate students in the 2016-17 academic year, UC President Janet Napolitano unveiled a plan at the UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday morning to add 14,000 beds to UC campuses by 2020.

The University of California has sold approximately $25 million worth of investments in private prison corporations, according to UC spokesperson Dianne Klein, after Black Student Unions of all nine UC campuses voted on a resolution calling for immediate divestment.

Prospective out-of-state students might find UC campuses less accessible than most Ivies next year after Thursday’s approval of a new UC budget plan.

UC Board of Regents approved a $1 billion project to expand the Merced campus and an enrollment plan that will add 10,000 students throughout the UC system over the next three years at its meeting Thursday.

Here, The Daily Californian hopes to provide some context for the enrollment plan and outline some other topics that will be discussed at the board meeting this week.

The UC Board of Regents will vote next week at its November meeting on a plan to expand in-state undergraduate enrollment by 10,000 students over the next three years.

More than 30 students from eight UC campuses convened in Oakland on Monday to state their disappointment with UC President Janet Napolitano’s handling of issues faced by undocumented students.