UC Berkeley establishes emergency rental assistance program for students
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The The UC Berkeley Student Advocate’s Office and Basic Needs Center, along with others, recently established an emergency rental assistance program.
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Power outages prompt strategies for instructional resilience at UC Berkeley
Loss of instructional time due to power outages this semester has negatively impacted students and instructors, prompting UC Berkeley to seek solutions by creating the Instructional Resilience Task Force.
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City of Berkeley prepares for possible Wednesday power outage
Parts of Berkeley may experience a PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoff starting early Wednesday morning, according to a tweet from the city of Berkeley.
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Chancellor Christ speaks at Graduate Assembly meeting
UC Berkeley graduate students asked Chancellor Carol Christ questions and presented their concerns at the Graduate Assembly meeting Thursday.
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UC Berkeley CFO, Vice Chancellor for Finance Rosemarie Rae to retire in spring 2020
Rosemarie Rae, the campus vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer, has decided to step down from her position in what she describes as her “quasi-retirement.”
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UC Berkeley online GSIs petition for health insurance benefits, tuition remission
UC Berkeley School of Public Health students and workers have signed a petition supporting tuition remission, health insurance benefits for online GSIs.
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ASUC Senate establishes student fee committee, appoints members to Judicial, Elections councils
ASUC senators passed a resolution establishing a student fee committee and appointed members to the Judicial and Elections councils Wednesday night.
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District 4 City Council candidates Ben Gould, Kate Harrison receive endorsements from student leaders
According to ASUC Chief Legal Officer Claire Goudy, the endorsements of Gould and Harrison do not violate the ASUC bylaws, as the student leaders’ titles in the endorsement press release are for identification purposes only.
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Mail-in ballot drop box installed outside Sproul Hall
According to EAVP Nuha Khalfay, the ballot box has been in the works for several months and is part of a larger effort by her office to facilitate student voting and registration.
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Fiona Doyle, dean of Graduate Division, to retire next summer
A first generation college student, Doyle came to UC Berkeley in 1983 as an assistant professor in the campus department of Material Science and Mineral Engineering. She was the College of Engineering’s third female faculty member and has been the Donald H. McLaughlin Professor of Mineral Engineering since 1998.
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