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The UC Board of Regents met Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss AI investments, immigration status and work-study jobs, ableism training for faculty and staff and budget reports. The board also voted to unanimously approve UC Berkeley’s new College of Computing, Data Science and Society, or CDSS.

Starting this fall, the UC Berkeley School of Law, or Berkeley Law, will offset tuition and student service fees for qualifying Native American students.

UC Berkeley has instituted supplemental tuition for at least six graduate programs over the last five years at a time when the base tuition fee throughout the UC system is frozen.

UC Berkeley Law School Dean Sujit Choudhry discussed the potential fee increase at a public town hall Monday at the school. He presented what he called a “modest increase” and outlined reasons for his proposal.