The governing board of the University of California met for the last day of its July meeting at UC San Francisco on Thursday. The Board of Regents discussed the previous two days’ committee meetings and approved the upcoming fiscal year budget for the UC Office of the President. Board of Regents During the public comments […]
Category Archives: UC
UC Regents recap – July 12
The University of California Board of Regents, the governing body of the UC, discussed diversity in graduate student programs, outcomes of surveys targeting graduate students and undergraduate admission policy, among other items, on the second day of its board meeting at UC San Francisco. Board of Regents Students gave public comments about tuition and housing […]
UC alters sexual misconduct response procedure, to affect all campuses
University of California campuses will now expedite the investigation process for faculty and staff accused of sexual misconduct. On June 29, the UC Office of the President announced changes to streamline the UC’s sexual misconduct response procedures. These changes, which must be implemented by campuses by September, come several months after the UC released details […]
UC increases minority-group admits, UCLA acceptance rate falls to 16.1
This post was updated July 7 at 10:21 p.m. The University of California admitted more students from underrepresented minority groups and low-income families this year but admitted less in-state students than last year. According to admission data the university released Thursday, the number of California-resident freshmen admitted to the UCs decreased by 1.7 percent from […]
Two UCLA students nominated as Board of Regents representatives
The University of California’s governing board appointed two UCLA students to serve as representatives on the board. A Board of Regents special committee nominated Devon Graves, an graduate student, as the student regent-designate and Rafi Sands, an undergraduate student, as the first-ever student adviser. The student adviser is a nonvoting position the Regents created last […]
Gov. Jerry Brown signs state budget that increases funds for UC
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a $125 billion state budget Tuesday for the 2017-2018 fiscal year that slightly raises state funds for the University of California, but links some funding to certain conditions. A $131.2 million increase, or about 4 percent from last year, comes as part of the 2015 budget agreement between Brown and UC […]
UC community expresses dissatisfaction with new regent nominees
Several student leaders and professors said they were concerned that the governor did not follow proper procedure when nominating new regents last month, and felt the nominees were out of touch with California’s diversity. The Council of University of California Faculty Associations wrote a letter to California state Sen. Kevin de León last week asking […]