Janet Gilmore

​​Weeks of bargaining on wages, fee remissions and hiring levels for academic student employees, or ASEs, in EECS and data science courses have pushed ASEs’ labor union to put forth its “last,” “best” and “final” contract offer to UC Berkeley.

After weeks of bargaining, UC Berkeley and UAW 2865 remain split on wages, fee remission and hiring levels for EECS and data science course staff. 

The crimes reported include robberies at gunpoint outside of student residential housing, car break-ins and sexual battery. Meanwhile, students have taken to Reddit and other social media platforms, expressing concerns of needing to protect themselves on campus. 

Applications to the University of California for fall 2023 have decreased by 2.2% since last year, from 251,179 to 245,768 applications, according to data released recently from the University.

In response to the campus closure of the Anthropology Library as part of the Berkeley Library Long Term Space Plan, students and faculty organized a town hall and overnight occupation of the Anthropology Library Wednesday.

Black organizations and campus have made historic progress in rebuilding, representing and strengthening their community despite proposition 209.

About 60 academic workers, students, faculty, staff and Union Auto Workers, or UAW, 2865 leaders convened at Li Ka Shing Center on Wednesday to discuss the impacts and potential redress of cases of staff overwork in EECS and data science courses in a town hall meeting. 

The Latinx Caucus at UC Berkeley submitted a letter to Chancellor Carol Christ on Jan. 12 regarding the needs and issues facing Latine students. The letter emphasized finding a new temporary space for their Latinx Student Resource Center, or LSRC, which has been without a meeting space since Dec. 8, alongside demands for financial aid reevaluation, affordable housing and further retention efforts.

UC-AFT has filed a cease and desist letter against the University of California Office of the President regarding the university’s offer to compensate Unit 18 members who volunteer for “extra grading work at the end of the semester.” 

UC Berkeley doctoral candidates Ataya Cesspooch and Sierra Edd and doctoral student Breylan Martin published a collective statement Nov. 11 about campus associate professor Elizabeth Hoover, who released a statement Oct. 20 rescinding her previous claim to Native American ancestry.