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During its Wednesday meeting, the ASUC Senate convened in Eshleman Hall to discuss several bills aimed at improving student life and class scheduling conflicts including grading options and the semester-out rule.
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Berkeley Unified School District placed Yvette Felarca, a Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School teacher, on administrative leave Wednesday, following community criticism after a video showed she physically attacked a self-proclaimed white nationalist during a protest in Sacramento, California on June 26.
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A petition started three weeks ago by Berkeley resident Robert Jacobsen to fire a Berkeley Unified School District teacher who possibly took violent action during a white nationalist rally has since received more than 500 signatures.
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After serving as interim dean since May 2014, campus physics professor Robert Jacobsen was appointed dean of undergraduate studies at the College of Letters and Science earlier this week, according to a campus press release Wednesday.
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At its inaugural meeting on Jan. 14, the task force appointed to address concerns regarding the academic achievement of UC Berkeley’s student-athletes identified core topics and questions to be discussed this semester.
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Diverging accounts of how to best improve and reform UC governance came up for debate at the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate meeting Wednesday afternoon. At the meeting, faculty members debated the merits of a minority and majority report submitted by the Senate Special Committee on University Governance and
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Former governor of Michigan and lecturer at UC Berkeley Jennifer Granholm will be hosting a program on Current TV where she will invite guests to discuss issues relating to the 2012 general election. “The War Room with Jennifer Granholm,” which will premiere in January, will air on weeknights at 9
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UC Berkeley professor of English Lyn Hejinian was one of only two faculty members who spoke at Sept. 22’s Day of Action rally — and this came after a UC Davis professor was the only ladder-rank faculty member who spoke at a town hall meeting the Monday before. “I’m sure
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