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With the COVID-19 pandemic throwing the UC Berkeley community into a virtual setting last spring, campus administrators continue to work to stay ahead of an unpredictable curve.
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Faced with a projected $340 million budget deficit, UC Berkeley is primarily turning to its employment base for cost-saving measures.
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The ASUC Senate received an update on UC Berkeley’s financial situation and continued to table a bill on community engagement at its meeting Wednesday.
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In an effort to bridge UC Berkeley’s budget shortfall, campus leadership released a number of voluntary actions that department faculty and staff can take.
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During a campus conversation Friday, UC Berkeley leaders said budget reallocations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been made through an equity lens.
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Despite being stretched to the bone financially, the campus has made an impressive effort to maintain the quality of the education we receive.
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Chancellor Carol Christ announced Monday in a campuswide email that UC Berkeley reached a balanced budget, ending the $150 million deficit and also raised $1.2 billion in revenue from “two consecutive, record-breaking years of fundraising.”
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The press conference’s main topics, which were sent in a campuswide email, included progress on Chancellor Carol Christ’s financial and housing goals.
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Entrepreneurship in colleges, advances in undergraduate education and decreases in state funding — UC Berkeley Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos touched on all these topics at his talk Monday.
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In the early hours of Friday morning, Chancellor Carol Christ released a Calmessage to the campus community detailing the campus’s financial progresses and woes.
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