UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly

Due to social distancing orders, the fate of the scheduled California Bar Examination in July is uncertain. State Bar of California board of trustees chair Alan Steinbrecher sent a letter to the California Supreme Court outlining two options to replace the exam.

The future of business as usual in Berkeley is far from certain, even with emergency relief available to organizations and people most impacted by the coronavirus. Although the exact rate of job loss in Berkeley is unknown, the numbers are approximately proportional to national unemployment rates.

For the first time since 2016, candidates from both of UC Berkeley’s major political parties, Student Action and CalSERVE, will face off for the position of executive vice president, or EVP, in the 2019 ASUC elections.

The UC Board of Regents will convene Sept. 12-14 at the UC San Diego Price Center to discuss UC professional degree supplemental tuition, a university-implemented summer STEM program for underrepresented youth and the results of the Aug. 22 state audit of the UC system.

Engaging with graduate and professional students does not undercut the important work around undergraduate education.

Berkeley City Council passed the city staff recommendation on the funding allocation for community agencies in the upcoming financial year, among other items at its Tuesday meeting.

Berkeley graduate students exhibit higher rates of depression than the average population, according to a new graduate student well-being survey from the Graduate Assembly and the campus’s Graduate Division.

During their first meeting of the year, the University of California Student Association passed a vote of no confidence in the UC Board of Regents and UC President Janet Napolitano, following the regents approval of a tuition increase policy in November.

Following a similar action taken by the UC Student Association, the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly voted Thursday to pass a resolution denouncing HR 35, a state Assembly measure aimed at curbing anti-Semitism at the state’s higher education institutions.