Student housing plan to add 14,000 affordable beds across UC by 2020

SAN FRANCISCO — University of California President Janet Napolitano announced an initiative Wednesday morning that will add at least 14,000 affordable beds across the UC system by 2020. Napolitano’s student housing initiative aims to add these beds in a mix of graduate and undergraduate housing and university apartments in an effort to address the issue […]

UC Regents committee approves independent UCLA School of Music

SAN FRANCISCO — A University of California Board of Regents committee granted autonomy to the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in a unanimous vote Wednesday morning, making it a separate entity from the School of the Arts and Architecture. The Regents Committee on Educational Policy approved the proposal. Under the proposal, the pre-existing departments […]

UC task force releases proposal on employee retirement benefit options

Future University of California employees could be able to choose from two retirement benefit options, according to a proposal released Friday by a UC task force. UC President Janet Napolitano appointed a UC-wide task force of faculty, staff and administrators last year to determine a new set of retirement benefits. According to the proposal, UC […]

Lecturers’ union circulates petition to bargain for fair contract from UC

The University of California lecturers’ union is circulating a petition asking UC President Janet Napolitano to negotiate with what they call fair proposals, after working without a contract for more than a month. The University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, represents all lecturers and librarians on UC campuses. There were approximately 1,200 lecturers at […]

Statewide poll shows Californians support funding for UC

A public advocacy organization released results of a new statewide poll Thursday that showed a majority of Californians would support a ballot initiative that guarantees stable funding for the University of California. About 63 percent of the 600 people polled said they think the state constitution should be amended to establish a minimum level of […]

Nearly 120,000 students apply to UCLA, highest among UCs for fall 2016

UCLA was the most applied to University of California campus for fall 2016 admission, with nearly 120,000 students applying for admission. UCLA received 97,064 freshman applicants and 22,262 transfer application, totaling 119,326. This was an increase 5.8 percent from 112,744 last year. A total of about 200,000 students applied to the UC for fall 2016 […]