Maura Nolan

Students lack information and guidance as grading formats change due to new policies enacted by UC Berkeley’s Academic Senate amidst the UC-wide academic worker strike.

Extreme temperatures in the city of Berkeley resulted in ongoing concerns over the accessibility of UC Berkeley classrooms and additional stress to the California power grid. 

Berkeley Connect, an academic mentoring program on campus, could be defunded and eliminated because of budget restrictions.

As big as UC Berkeley can feel to students first entering the school, campus leaders are working to build a mentoring program for undergraduates to interact more intimately with their academic interests.

UC Berkeley professors discussed the undergraduate experience and improving student advising at the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate meeting Thursday.

Chancellor Nicholas Dirks introduced a number of programs and initiatives to be implemented during his first year at UC Berkeley in a press conference Monday afternoon.

The campus announced Tuesday its launch of Berkeley Connect, an academic program that aims to provide undergraduate students with a more personal means of connecting with professors and graduate students within their major.

Justin Park, the former high school dropout and recent UC Berkeley graduate recently learned he has been chosen as one of 40 individuals nationwide to receive a full scholarship to study Old English literature at the University of Cambridge.