Students are encouraging the university to adopt a more democratic review process for sexual assault cases. The undergraduate student government passed a resolution last Tuesday that recommends the University of California Office of the President make its peer review committee, which intervenes if the university fails to respond adequately to allegations, more diverse. The resolution […]
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Assembly Bill 1887 affects UCLA travel to states with discriminatory laws
A new state law that prohibits the use of state funds for travel to states with anti-LGBT laws has affected plans for academic conferences, collaboration and athletic games at public universities. Assembly Bill 1887 went into effect at the beginning of 2017 and bars state-funded travel to Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee. It affects […]
UC SHIP board looking to add surgery options for transgender students
University of California representatives are working to include certain transgender surgeries in student health insurance coverage. Attendees at the UC Student Health Insurance Plan meeting Tuesday discussed voting to add breast augmentation surgery for male-to-female transgender students to the UC SHIP plan, said David DiTullio, an Executive Oversight Board graduate representative for the Student Health […]
New study finds tuition-free higher education possible with taxes
A tuition-free higher education would cost the median-income California family an additional $48 per year, according to a report released by a higher education advocacy coalition last month. Reclaim California’s Master Plan for Higher Education seeks to restore the Donahoe Act of 1960, which recommended state colleges, including the University of California, remain tuition-free to […]
UC President Janet Napolitano selects new chancellor of UC Davis
University of California President Janet Napolitano selected the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering to be the new chancellor of UC Davis on Tuesday. The UC Regents will meet at UCLA on Thursday to vote on the terms of Gary May’s proposed appointment. May would take over for chancellor Linda Katehi, […]
State legislature addresses UC budget, nonresident enrollment
The state legislature’s policy advising agency assessed the University of California’s 2016 to 2017 spending plan in a report published Thursday. The Legislative Analyst’s Office evaluated important UC budget components, such as compensation and resident and nonresident enrollment. According to the LAO report, employee compensation is the largest UC expenditure in the 2016 to 2017 […]
Assemblymember proposes tuition freeze for public universities
A state legislator introduced a bill Feb. 9 that would freeze tuition at public universities and colleges in California. Sharon Quirk-Silva, a Democratic assemblymember from Orange County, proposed the Student Protection Act, which would leave tuition and school fees at the amount charged on Dec. 31, 2016 through the 2019 to 2020 academic year at […]