UC Berkeley News

The College of Letters and Science is aiming to reduce its budget deficit to $383,000 for fiscal year 2018, a target that will require a $203,000 reduction in expenses and a doubling of gift revenue from $50 million to $100 million.

BUSD teacher Yvette Felarca was formally arraigned Thursday on one count of assault, one count of participating in an illegal riot and one count of causing a riot, according to the Sacramento District Attorney’s office.

The total solar eclipse will be the first to stretch across the United States in almost 100 years, and the country’s first total solar eclipse since 1991.

BAMPFA has adopted an ambitious plan for achieving a targeted budget deficit reduction of $582,000 set by the recently unveiled campus fiscal year 2018 budget, including plans to generate $850,000 in new revenue, increase its endowment by $5 million and reduce the number of scheduled exhibitions as part of cost-saving measures.

The campus announced G. Steven Martin, campus professor emeritus of cell and developmental biology, as its new interim vice chancellor for research in an email from Chancellor Carol Christ sent to the campus community Thursday afternoon. His appointment will be effective Monday.

The campus has unveiled its response to an imposing financial crisis with its 2017-18 budget, highlighted by more than $20 million in cuts to academic, research and administrative expenses.

Students who rely on campus dining services after midnight will need to prepare to search for other options — next semester, Cal Dining will offer no sit-down dining options after 11 p.m., with Crossroads dining hall no longer open until 2 a.m.

According to documents obtained last week by the New York Times, President Trump is poised to redirect Department of Justice resources into investigating universities for discriminatory enrollment practices guided by affirmative action.

6,500 new first year and 3,000 new transfer students will participate in the new Golden Bear Orientation, or GBO, beginning Tuesday morning as a part of the Golden Bear Experience, a four-part program created for all incoming undergraduate students.

The 2902 Adeline Street Neighbors, an unincorporated nonprofit neighborhood association to protect low-income housing, is suing the city of Berkeley over a mixed-use construction project at its namesake address.