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The University of California announced Thursday that it has launched a new website that streamlines information on student-veteran services, which the university has expanded over the past 10 years.
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Gov. Jerry Brown made an executive order Monday to establish a coalition of statewide partners, including the University of California, that would help strengthen the state’s cybersecurity.
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The University of California and a union representing nontenured lecturers and librarians across the UC system agreed last week on a short-term extension of the existing lecturers’ employment contract, which was set to expire Monday.
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Union representatives called on the UC Board of Regents to support a bill that would ensure workers employed by private university contractors are compensated comparably to university employees doing similar work.
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The International Human Rights Law Clinic at UC Berkeley’s School of Law published a research report Thursday detailing the experience of undocumented students on campus.
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The University of California President Janet Napolitano and the President’s Advisory Council on Undocumented Students will host a national summit on undocumented students from May 7 to May 8 at the Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel.
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During its Tuesday hearing, the higher education committee of the California State Assembly voted in favor of moving forward with a bill that would create a new UC campus dedicated to STEAM fields, which are science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.
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A California State Senate bill, which would change the requirements to be a sexual assault counselor in the state and affect the UC system’s sexual assault counseling procedures, was postponed indefinitely Tuesday.
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A report released last week by the Legislative Analyst’s Office found the university did not comply with certain provisions of state law related to the consultation of students prior to implementing a recent fee increase.
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A state Assembly member introduced a bill this month that would cap the nonresident student population of each UC campus at 10 percent. The bill, AB 1370, does not appear to affect nonresident students currently attending UC campuses that exceed the proposed 10 percent nonresident cap. Instead, those campuses would be prohibited
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