Lisa Garcia Bedolla

A research team led by UC Berkeley’s School of Education and other California institutions has received a $3 million federal grant to study post-pandemic learning recovery in California’s school system.

UC Berkeley McNair scholars and directors struggled to find what went wrong after a denied federal grant application dissolved campus’s 30-year-old research scholarship that prepared underrepresented undergraduates for higher education. 

The U.S. Department of Education rejected UC Berkeley’s grant proposal for the McNairs Scholars Program, and campus cannot reapply until 2027.

On an average pandemic day, Nicholas Weaver, a computer science lecturer, shuffles his cats into his carpeted library as he prepares to deliver an online lecture.

The UC system received a record high number of undergraduate applicants for fall 2021 admission, including an increase in the number of applicants of color.

UC Berkeley has seen a record number of fall 2021 graduate applicants coming from historically underrepresented backgrounds and communities.

On Thursday, the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly, or GA, joined the ASUC in unanimously supporting Proposition 16, which would restore affirmative action for race and gender in public universities and public sector jobs in California if passed.

Technology executive and local philanthropist Jose Luis Bedolla is running for a spot on the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, board in the November general election.

UC Berkeley student life and engagement will look different in the fall compared to previous semesters because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The campus Graduate Assembly met Thursday to discuss graduate student diversity, support during the COVID-19 pandemic and gender-neutral restrooms in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union.