Sadia Saifuddin

In February 2019, UC Berkeley’s Basic Needs Center will open on the lower level of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union. The center is the first of its kind on campus.

The UC Board of Regents will vote on the creation of a student adviser position at its January meeting, according to Student Regent Avi Oved.

The University of California announced UC Riverside graduate student Marcela Ramirez as the 2016-17 student regent-nominee Tuesday.

The UC Regents discussed efforts to institutionalize food security across the university at their Thursday meeting.

The UC Board of Regents will vote Thursday on whether to endorse Governor Jerry Brown's revised budget and authorize the UC President to implement nonresident tuition increases.

As the only voting student on a board sometimes criticized for being divorced from the student experience, the UC student regent must strike a careful balance between representing the student body and being faithful to the best interests of the university.

The ASUC President sent out a campus-wide email on Saturday that described three relatively new programs that provide immediate assistance to students who might be facing food insecurity.

Student leaders expressed anger at having been left out of a meeting held between the UC President and selected student leaders at the UC Office of the President’s office in Oakland Tuesday.

The UC Student Regent and Student Regent-designate held an information session on campus Tuesday evening to explain their goals for the year, meet students and discuss the application process for the position.

At their Thursday meeting at UCSF, the UC Regents revisited the university’s 2015-16 budget, discussing plans from the state government that would keep tuition flat.