Janet Broughton

Attorneys presented arguments in court Tuesday regarding a petition to dismiss UC Berkeley professor Blake Wentworth’s defamation lawsuit against two campus graduate students who alleged he sexually harassed them.

Former UC Berkeley School of Law dean Sujit Choudhry sued the UC Board of Regents — among other university-related parties — on Thursday, alleging that he was the victim of racial discrimination and that the university was attempting to deprive him of his reputation and career.

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele recused himself from the selection process for an interim dean of UC Berkeley School of Law on Tuesday amid mounting pressure from campus student groups.

After five years serving as the campus vice provost for the faculty, campus philosophy professor Janet Broughton will retire at the end of the semester, with Benjamin Hermalin, chair of the campus's Academic Senate, set to take her place.

In past decades, lecturers served as temporary instructors, filling in for tenured faculty. But increasingly, the university relies on lecturers, who have fewer employment safeguards and lower salaries, to teach courses.

A recent campus study found that women and ethnic minority faculty earn slightly lower average salaries than non-minority male faculty.