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UC officials estimate that roughly 24,000 UC students are eligible to receive a new state scholarship geared toward middle class families and will be notified of their award amounts mid-September.
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The president of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture and a nationally recognized Berkeley chef are among four donors who have pledged a total of $15,000 toward the UC Global Food Initiative Student Fellowships.
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Regardless of their state of legal residency, veterans and their immediate families may be able to pay in-state tuition to attend public universities,after Congress passed a bill last week to improve access to education for military retirees.
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UC President Janet Napolitano held a town hall meeting Wednesday with UCOP staff to take questions about issues ranging from UC finances to environmental sustainability.
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The University of California reached a tentative agreement with the union representing student academic employees Tuesday, averting a potential 10-day strike that would have coincided with finals week on many UC campuses.
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Nearly a hundred members of the UC community are expected to hold a protest calling for fossil fuel divestment outside the UC Board of Regents meeting in Sacramento on Wednesday.
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The United Auto Workers Local 2865 represents 13,000 GSI, readers, and both graduate and undergraduate tutors across the UC system. According to the UC Office of the President, this agreement will ensure student workers have access to the restrooms and lactation stations they need, in a case-by case basis upon employment.
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Nearly two weeks after a UC-wide strike, the UC student academic workers union has filed two unfair labor practice charges against the University of California with the state public employment relations board.
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Student academic employees, professors and undergraduate students alike stationed themselves in solidarity at the entrance of Sproul Plaza on the second and final day of a statewide strike against alleged unfair labor practices.
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Student academic workers across the UC campuses will go on strike Wednesday and Thursday to protest alleged acts of unfair labor practices by UC administrators.
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