UC Regents

The UC Board of Regents met Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss AI investments, immigration status and work-study jobs, ableism training for faculty and staff and budget reports. The board also voted to unanimously approve UC Berkeley’s new College of Computing, Data Science and Society, or CDSS.

On May 18, the UC Board of Regents reconvened for its second and third board meetings of the week, alongside a joint meeting from the academic and student affairs committee and finance and capital strategies committee.

Wednesday, Chancellor Carol Christ participated in her twice-a-year livestream conversation, reflecting on the past academic year at Berkeley and campus’s plans for the future.

Former members of Cal women’s swim and dive filed a lawsuit against the University of California over alleged negligence surrounding former Cal women’s swim coach Teri McKeever.

The County of Alameda’s recent legal ruling has blocked the proposed construction of beach volleyball courts for the UC Berkeley women’s beach volleyball team. 

The California Public Employment Relations Board received an unfair labor practice charge Friday from UAW 2865, which alleges that the university has violated the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act on at least 13 accounts.

UC Berkeley is currently facing a potential $82 million dollar budget deficit. Chancellor Carol Christ updated the community on budget plans during a Campus Conversation on March 27. 

An appellate court ruled Friday that UC Berkeley may not proceed with plans to build student and low-income housing at People’s Park, prompting calls from local and state officials to reform the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, at the heart of the lawsuit.

The 1st District Court of Appeal released an opinion regarding Make UC A Good Neighbor's CEQA lawsuit against the UC Regents alleging an inadequate environmental impact report, or EIR, for the regents' planned development on the site of People's Park on Friday.

In a closed session Dec. 14, the UC Board of Regents approved UCLA’s withdrawal from the Pac-12 conference and move to the Big Ten conference.