UC Berkeley lecturers fear job loss with lack of hiring freeze exemption
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A number of UC Berkeley lecturers fear losing their jobs as the campus announced April 21 that they were no longer exempt from the hiring freeze.
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Global studies represents move toward marketability
UNIVERSITY ISSUES: Global Studies and M.E.T. represent lamentable shifts in UC Berkeley's education system.
In times of increased global conflict & heightened polarization of political ideology, it’s imperative that we teach how to deconstruct and analyze events.
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Peace, data, development: Perspectives on poverty intervention
In 2015, the World Bank projected that based on the updated poverty line of $1.90 per day, 700 million people, or 9.6 percent of the global population, may be living in poverty.
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Power ranking: backup majors
“You can’t always get what you want.” These wise words sung by The Rolling Stones accurately depict the struggle at UC Berkeley (well, maybe in the entire world but maybe even more so at Berkeley?). These are the words we UC Berkeley students live by, from not getting the desired
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If “The Bachelorette” contestants went to UC Berkeley
We all know exactly what you’re wondering every time you anxiously watch a rose ceremony: What major would so-and-so be at UC Berkeley? Well the answers to all your troubles are finally here. We at the Clog have compiled a list of what each contestant (or at least the relevant ones)
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Campus professor of education John Hurst dies at 86
UC Berkeley professor of education John Hurst, a proponent of popular education, died March 22. He was 86.
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International and Area Studies program announces new global studies major
Several International and Area Studies, or IAS, majors are set to coalesce into a new global studies major by next year, with some courses planned to start by spring 2017.
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Petition alleges ‘attack’ on peace and conflict studies program
A UC Berkeley alumna launched a petition this month accusing the International and Area Studies administration of waging an “attack” on the Peace and Conflict Studies program due to downsizing in the last few years.
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All millennials need to fight gender inequality
Millennials, or my generation, seeing as I was born in 1990, are sadly generalized as lazy, disrespectful, bawdy and privileged. Throwing salt on the wound, as I write this, Miley Cyrus holds the leading public vote for Time’s Person of the Year. Despite the bad reputation we hold in the
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