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Thursday, October 22, 2020

UC system to build biomethane plant, solar array for renewable energy

As part of the UC system’s efforts to meet its 2025 carbon neutrality goal, it has partnered with Archaea Energy, LLC and Clearway Energy Group to build a biomethane facility and solar project. Operations for the project are expected to begin by 2023, with carbon neutrality being a goal for the UC system since 2007.

The UC system has partnered with two energy companies to construct a biomethane plant and solar array to help bring it closer to its carbon neutrality goal by 2025.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Widespread UCPath payroll errors continue, union workers allege

More than a year after the campus deployment of the payroll system UCPath, postdoctoral students and academic researchers continue to experience payroll errors, according to several members of the Union of Postdocs and Academic Researchers, or UAW Local 5810.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

UC to receive $8.6M from settlement with Verizon, AT&T

The UC system will receive $8.6 million from Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. after a settlement was reached over a whistleblower’s allegation that the two companies were overcharging California state contractors.
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Campus

Friday, September 25, 2020

UC Berkeley loses $30M due to limited housing, dining amid COVID-19 pandemic

The limiting of campus housing and dining options due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to millions of dollars in losses for UC Berkeley.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Unionized lecturers continue to negotiate contract, rehiring rights with UC

While 2020 has left many unemployed and without a steady source of income, UC lecturers find themselves without contracts, an issue that was discussed at the University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, faculty bargaining session Tuesday.
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Friday, September 4, 2020

Coalition launches campaign to remove police from UC campuses

A coalition of UC faculty, students, activists and community members launched a campaign Tuesday through multiple social media platforms to remove police across all UC campuses by Sept. 1, 2021.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Court dismisses UC sexual harassment class-action suit

Doe v. the Regents of the University of California, a class-action lawsuit involving students accused of sexual harassment, was dismissed by the Alameda County Superior Court on Thursday.
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Monday, July 6, 2020

UC Academic Council calls for radical reform of UC police force

The UCPD is in need of a “visionary and transformative” restructuring in the wake of the national Black Lives Matter movement, the UC Academic Council said in a letter June 29.
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Activism 2020, UC

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Student activists push against UC’s ‘unsustainable partnerships’

This year, student organizers have begun to call out university relationships that run counter to campus values — and they are persisting through the pandemic.
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Student Life

Thursday, June 4, 2020

UC Berkeley communities condemn presidential proclamation suspending entry of some Chinese international graduates, postgraduates

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a proclamation May 29 suspending entry of certain international students from China seeking a visa for graduate and postgraduate study in the United States.
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