Ryan King

On March 13, the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, announced the naming of Sharon Adesokan as its first Health Care Facilitator, or HCF. 

Fossil Free Research and Data for Progress released a report Wednesday on fossil fuel funding at prominent U.S. universities. Campus has received $155.9 million from big oil and fossil fuel companies between 2010 and 2020.  

Initiatives focused on expanding the UC’s transfer admission guarantee program in the 2023-2024 state budget are under discussion amongst California lawmakers. 

A new bill introduced Jan. 25 by Congressmen Ken Buck and Josh Hawley aims to expand restrictions, preventing TikTok from being downloaded on U.S. devices and penalizing transactions with TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance.

The December UC Board of Regents Health Services Committee meeting was disrupted within 5 minutes by UAW 2865 and SRU protesters.

As academic workers continue to strike for increased wages throughout the UC system, discussions have emerged over whether the demonstrations will impact workers’ payrolls.

The largest higher education strike in history of 48,000 academic workers across the UC system has entered its fourth week.

Striking academic workers from UC Berkeley, UCSF and UC Davis marched on the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, in Oakland Monday. 

The University of California may dock pay from those participating in the ongoing academic worker strike—including faculty striking in solidarity—according to Berkeley Faculty Association Chair James Vernon. 

United Auto Workers voted to authorize a strike consisting of postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers, academic student employees and graduate student researchers Wednesday.