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After narrowly escaping tuition hikes with the passage of Proposition 30 Tuesday, the UC Board of Regents will consider tuition increases for 61 professional degree programs at its meeting next week. Graduate students across the UC could see increases of up to 35 percent. If the Regents approve the tuition
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Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown made decisions on several bills that will affect students and faculty at the state’s higher education institutions, including future fee increases, faculty tenure review policies and expansions to scholarship and medical coverage for student athletes.
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A preliminary settlement filed Wednesday at a federal court in Sacramento stipulated that the UC Regents pay about $1 million to end a lawsuit filed on behalf of students pepper-sprayed by UC Davis police officers last November.
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A settlement has been reached with the UC Board of Regents over a case regarding a 2008 UCLA lab fire that left a 23-year-old student worker dead from burn injuries.
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The defendants named in the recently-dropped lawsuit filed by the UC Board of Regents against Occupy the Farm intended to file an anti-SLAPP motion against the university in response.
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Gov. Jerry Brown released the revised state budget Monday, which predicts and prepares for cuts to primary, secondary and higher education, among other items pertaining to state funding. In a press conference Monday morning, Brown talked about the cuts that reflect state revenues that were lower than anticipated. The plan
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The University of California and the FBI reached a $100,000 settlement agreement last month with two Berkeley organizations that were raided by law enforcement officers in 2008. On Aug. 27, 2008, officers entered the offices of the Long Haul and the East Bay Prisoner Support group on Shattuck Avenue after
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The Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate is currently holding elections for members of its Divisional Council and the Committee on Committees, as well as voting on a proposal asking the UC Board of Regents to support legislation prioritizing public higher education funding. The ballot — which opened March 13
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Occupy Cal protesters plan to hold a “study-in” encampment in the UC Berkeley anthropology library Thursday to protest recent cuts to library hours and unfilled staff positions. The protesters plan to use the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library in Kroeber Hall as a study-in space for two hours in
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Occupy Cal is back. On Tuesday evening, demonstrators held a general assembly meeting on the steps of Sproul Hall to discuss how to rally support for the movement, which garnered national attention during the fall semester. About 20 participants attended the meeting, which lasted almost two hours and revolved around planning Occupy
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