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The UC system announced the launch of the UC Dual Admission pilot program Sept. 16, introducing a new transfer pathway for California high school students beginning next spring.

The UC system’s patent tracking system will be entirely replaced with a new intellectual property management system within the next five years.

Amidst California’s low standardized math test scores, increasing learning gaps caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and a lack of sufficient diversity in STEM, the California State Board of Education’s recent proposed curriculum framework to reform math education has garnered criticism from hundreds of educators. 

Organizers and demonstrators with Berkeley Copwatch and the Defend People’s Park Movement gathered Wednesday for a rally, march and barbeque at People’s Park to protest UC development on the land. 

The UC regents and the California secretary of state partnered to sign a resolution Wednesday intended to increase student voter participation by ensuring all 10 UC campuses have ballot drop boxes or voting centers. 

The United States Supreme Court effectively overturned Roe v. Wade in a decision on Saturday, dissolving a precedented constitutional right to abortion access at the federal level.

In preparation for California’s upcoming fire season, the city of Berkeley is ramping up tree removal and other wildfire safety efforts.

California Native American students from both federally and non-federally recognized tribes will have their university tuition and fees waived for the 2022-2023 academic year. 

Teamsters Local 2010 — a labor union that represents more than 14,000 UC and CSU workers — organized a statewide Week of Action calling for “more adequate” CX worker pay and an end to the pay disparity between those workers and management within the two institutions.

Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, is continuing to develop its African American Success Initiative, or AASI, during the spring 2022 semester.