SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) —University of California President Janet Napolitano's first regents' meeting as head of the system drew about 100 protesters in San Francisco on Tuesday, demanding she be removed from the post. On the first of a three day UC Board of Regents meeting at the UCSF M...
The University of California Board of Regents special committee on athletics voted 7-1 during a meeting at UC Merced on Tuesday to cut down the length of the payments. UC president Michael Drake recommended six years in a report going into the meeting. The matter — ni...
The issue drew fire from some speakers in public comments at the regents meeting Wednesday at UCLA. Isabella Arzeno Soltero, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering who joined UCLA last year, said she was appalled to witness the campus “flooded” with ...
“I do believe (the tuition increase is) likely to pass even though I would not like it to,” said Alexis Atsilvsgi Zaragoza, a UC Berkeley undergraduate and a student voting member of the Regents who’ll be casting her first vote at this week’s meeting. Her dissent has powerful a...
Mark Osea, a transfer counselor and articulation officer at Mendocino College, said during Thursday's meeting that it will be important for UC campuses to market themselves to students in rural parts of the state. "Despite name recognition, some students don't know what the nine undergraduate UC...
Before she stepped down, Katehi was scheduled to attend a Board of Regents meeting Thursday, when she would have been questioned about the report's findings, which had mixed conclusions, according to The Los Angeles Times. One of the main allegations in the case was that the chancellor...
The University of Texas is exploring a bid to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory after receiving the green lightrnThursday from its Board of Regents.rnThe regents approved bid preparations that could cost up to $4.5 million in a Thursday meeting at the University of Texasrnat Austin. ...
In 30 years of ADA, UC still hasn’t fully met ADA conditions. But meeting ADA isn’t enough. For example, accessible cycle racks & lockers are important for transportation to those disabled people that can cycle, especially on a majority cycle campus like UC Davis. But when asked, abled...
- The University of California will continue to not use standardized tests for admissions decisions, an official told a meeting of the UC governing board. UC regents were told Thursday that faculty could not find an alternative test that would not have the same bias problem that led the univers...
UC regents heard the outlines of the possible Google deal at a recent meeting. Though indicating general support, several regents expressed worries about copyright issues and whether Google might somehow exploit UC in the future. “The sense is to move forward with caution and to be able to def...