John DeNero

UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Sciences changed its admission policy for the computer science major for Fall 2023 admits. 

To grease the wheels on months-long contract negotiations, UC Berkeley and UAW 2865 have picked a mediator: Sacramento mayor Darrell Steinberg.

​​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. 

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. 

When Foundations of Data Science, or Data 8, was first launched in 2015, there were fewer than 100 students in the class. Today, more than 1,600 students are enrolled in what has become a staple in the UC Berkeley undergraduate’s must-take class list.

UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science and Society, or CDSS, nominated four associate deans with the purpose of diversifying leadership and strengthening the division’s outreach.

For the second year in a row, campus student organization Blockeley has taken up the torch of helping UC Berkeley students experience a graduation ceremony through the video game Minecraft.

In early May, the Harvard Data Science Review, or HDSR, assessed UC Berkeley’s leadership in the field of data science and UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, or CDSS.

UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science computer science department proposed amendments to its computer science major declaration process for incoming students.