Author Archives: Nancy Su

The University of California, along with its three corporate partners, has been awarded the new management contract for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Department of Energy announced Wednesday. The UC has managed the lab since its establishment in 1943, but its role in operating the lab was threatened by a series of mismanagement troubles […]

BERKELEY “”mdash; The UC Board of Regents voted Thursday to approve salary increases averaging 2.5 percent for top UC administrators, including President Robert Dynes, campus chancellors and other executives. The salary increases, which UC officials describe as regular annual merit increases, were approved by the full board today without discussion after being proposed in a […]

BERKELEY “”mdash; About 500 students marched outside the UC Board of Regents meeting at the UC Berkeley campus Thursday, holding cardboard signs decrying the fee increases approved Wednesday. During a majority of the meeting, the first held on the Berkeley campus in over a decade, students chanted phrases such as “We won’t go to the […]

In a 17-2 vote at UC Berkeley Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents passed the 2006-2007 university budget, which includes a student fee increase for the fifth straight year. The vote came after a long discussion on whether a decision on raising fees should be postponed until a preliminary state budget can be drafted in […]

The UC Board of Regents is scheduled to vote today on the 2006-2007 university budget, which if passed would include another round of fee increases for students systemwide. The board also plans to discuss increasing compensation for University of California employees in what UC officials describe as an attempt to bring salaries up to the […]

More than 100 students filled the James West Alumni Center on Monday, standing with linked arms in support of the University of California’s divestment from Sudan, as a committee of the UC Board of Regents approved the creation of a proposal to divest UC holdings from the country. Monday’s meeting of the regents’ Investments Committee […]

The investments committee of the UC Board of Regents will meet on campus today to hear a request for a full proposal to divest holdings from four foreign companies engaged in business in Sudan, a country whose government has committed genocide in western Darfur for more than two years. The request, which will be submitted […]