Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

In light of the ongoing academic workers strike, the College of Letters and Science extended its pass/no pass deadline from Dec. 2 to Dec. 11 after an unanimous motion passed Wednesday.

In response to a formal request from UC Berkeley's ASUC, the Letters & Science Executive Committee has extended the pass/no pass late action deadline to Dec. 11 at 11:59 pm.

As the fall semester comes to an end, some students may decide to drop a class late, a process which takes specific steps to complete, according to UC Berkeley administrators.

For many international students pursuing their studies at UC Berkeley across vastly different time zones, the pandemic has been a time marked by isolation, exhaustion and mental fatigue.

Alleged reduced teaching staff and longer office hour wait times are among the myriad problems for undergraduate and graduate student instructors, respectively uGSIs and GSIs, as a result of UC Berkeley budget cuts.

With testing being conducted online and Google just a tab away, UC Berkeley's Center for Student Conduct, or CSC, has received more than 300 reports of alleged academic misconduct during the fall semester, amounting to an increase from this time last year of more than 400%.

The Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate advised individual campus schools and colleges to accept the pass/no pass, or P/NP, grading policy in a statement Monday.

An outdoor instruction pilot program proposed by UC Berkeley administrators that will last from Oct. 26 to Nov. 24 and allow certain in-person activities has been approved by Berkeley public health officials.

A petition to the UC Berkeley Division of Student Affairs calling for a pass/no pass, or P/NP, grading option for all classes and major requirements for fall 2020 has garnered 5,420 signatures as of publication time since its creation Monday.

Campus officials are planning to begin a program in late October as part of an effort to introduce more in-person instructional activities.