‘She made people feel special’: UC Regent Ellen Tauscher dies at 67
UC Regent Ellen Tauscher died at Stanford University Medical Center on Monday after experiencing complications from pneumonia.
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UC Berkeley lecturer sends memo to governor, correlating wildfires with rising utility prices
Steven Weissman, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, sent a memorandum to Gov. Gavin Newsom on April 10, explaining the impact of California wildfires on the prices of gas and electric utilities.
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42 Alameda County death row inmates on reprieve after governor’s order
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday suspending California’s death penalty, and placing the 737 current death row inmates — among them 42 people from Alameda County — on reprieve.
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UC, CSU students to advocate for campus medication abortion access in Sacramento
About 40 UC and CSU students will come together in Sacramento on March 11 to lobby legislators for the College Student Right to Access Act, or Senate Bill 24, introduced by Senator Connie Leyva, D-Chino.
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Governor scales back high-speed rail project as President Trump calls for CA to repay federal funding
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in his State of the State address Feb. 12 that he plans to scale back the California high-speed rail project days before President Donald Trump called for California to repay $2.5 billion in federal funding for the project.
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‘Dangerous to democracy’: Berkeley community condemns Trump’s national emergency declaration
UC Berkeley campus and city of Berkeley officials have joined state executives in criticizing President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to fund a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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UC to now accept computer science classes for admission requirement
The UC requires applicants to have completed a number of high school courses in order to apply to the nine campuses. CS classes were previously considered merely supplemental, but will soon fulfill the third year science recommendation under the UC’s A-G requirement — used to determine application eligibility with high school classes.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom must diversify UC Board of Regents
STATE ISSUES: Diversity at the top encourages diversity at the bottom. Newsom must do better than his predecessors on appointing regents
At the end of his term, former governor Jerry Brown appointed Jonathan “Jay” Sures to the UC Board of Regents — a white man to an already predominantly white male board. Gov. Gavin Newsom must not fall in the footsteps of his predecessors and appoint regents that reflect the diversity of California.
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UC must get more funding for undocumented students
On Jan. 11, Gov. Gavin Newsom put forward a $209 billion state budget proposal that outlines his vision for the state. The bill includes a series of funding increases for the UC, which signal a welcome departure from former governor Jerry Brown’s more restrained appropriations. The governor’s proposal allocated $1.3
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget funds UC Berkeley-developed ShakeAlert
The UC Berkeley Seismology Laboratory is at the epicenter of the California Earthquake Early Warning system, or EEW, a program slated to receive millions of dollars in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first budget proposal.
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