Author Archives: Charles Proctor

SAN FRANCISCO ““ Citing pressing budget constraints and an increasing probability the state budget crisis will further impact the University of California, a key committee of the UC Board of Regents voted to raise student fees by 25 percent. The increase raises annual average resident undergraduate fees by $960 to $4,604. In the same motion, […]

When the UC Board of Regents met in May to debate then-tentative student fee increases, they were also met by protesting students from six UC campuses. On Wednesday, when the regents convene in San Francisco to discuss an all-but-certain fee increase of up to 25 percent, they will be greeted (met) by a different sound: […]

After supporters of affirmative action scored a major victory with a Supreme Court ruling in Michigan, opponents of racial consideration are mobilizing to counter the potential effects of the ruling ““ a movement that may be led in part by University of California Regent Ward Connerly. Connerly will travel to Michigan this week as chairman of […]

Five of the nine Democrats hoping to make a run at the presidency in 2004 stopped over at UCLA Thursday evening to skewer the Bush administration on everything from the environment to war in what became a roasting of the president. The attendees included U.S. Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., former U.S. […]

In what some affirmative action-supporters are hailing as a huge victory, a divided Supreme Court ruled that universities can give minority applicants an edge in the admittance process ““ within certain limits. The decision came from two separate rulings involving the University of Michigan, which has been embroiled in an affirmative action lawsuit since 1997. […]

The University of California Board of Regents will likely take a long-awaited vote on a proposed increase in student fees when they convene at their bi-monthly meeting in mid-July, according to the UC Office of the President. The regents were supposed to vote on a fee increase at their May meeting after Gov. Gray Davis’ […]

A week after being selected as the new leader for the largest public research university system in the world, it’s back to business as usual for Robert Dynes. On June 11, the University of California Board of Regents selected Dynes, the current chancellor of UC San Diego, to succeed current UC President Richard Atkinson. Dynes […]