About 150 academic workers marched into California Hall Thursday and around 50 stayed overnight, leaving Friday morning.
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Thousands of UC Berkeley employees go on strike for better wages, benefits
UC Berkeley instructors, researchers and post-docs are among the 48,000 academic workers across the University of California system on the picket line.
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University of California buys $6.5M Berkeley home for its president
University of California President Michael Drake will live and entertain in the $6.5 million Julia Morgan-designed home in the Claremont neighborhood.
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Cal remains country’s top public, 4th best university in new rankings
A new national ranking puts UC Berkeley at the top of all public universities in the U.S.
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11 years of radical thought and action in Berkeley led to creation of People’s Park
Dozens of protests in support of civil rights, the student movement in France, the Black Panther movement and against the UC Regents set the stage for the creation of the Southside Berkeley park.
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Workers at UC Berkeley, other campuses launch 3-day strike
The service worker union, AFSCME 3299, is calling for higher wages. UC Berkeley said campus operations are still running “smoothly” during the strike.
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Opinion: Blake Garden must be open to the public more than one weekend day per year
Blake Garden, owned by the UC system, is a beautiful public resource. But many working people cannot benefit from it since the garden is only open one weekend a year.
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Opinion: Should the University of California be more like the City of Berkeley?
Janet Napolitano is under fire for findings in the recent performance audit of her President’s Office. Maybe UC should take a leaf out of Berkeley’s auditing practices?
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Op-ed: stop UC from eliminating award-winning medical program that creates life-changing physicians
Proposed budget cuts are threatening UC Berkeley’s award-winning medical program, which partners with UCSF to create life-changing physicians. In a fight to keep the program alive, students, staff and alumni are taking action. Since 1971, the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP) has been producing innovative physician leaders. Students spend the first part of the […]
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Hundreds expected to attend ‘Million Student March’ on UC Berkeley campus
A ‘Million Student March’ is scheduled to take place on the UC Berkeley campus at 2 p.m. Nov. 12. Photo: D.H. Parks A ‘Million Student March’ is scheduled to take place on the UC Berkeley campus at 2 p.m. Nov. 12. Photo: D.H. Parks Hundreds of protesters are expected to take part in a “Million Student March” […]
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Op-ed: UC should re-invest its fossil-fuel portfolio in renewable energy
As a Cal alumna, I’ve been rooting for my alma mater to be among the first universities to divest from fossil fuels. Alas, Stanford, SF State and Peralta, along with dozens of other universities, religious institutions and cities, including Berkeley, San Francisco, Richmond and Oakland, have already shown us up, divesting billions from the oil, […]
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Students march through Berkeley to protest tuition hikes
A group around 200-strong took the protest over UC tuition increases to the streets Monday. Photo: Siciliana Trevino Several hundred UC Berkeley students staged a walkout Monday, Nov. 24, to protest proposed tuition increases across the UC system. As part of the walkout, a group around 200-strong took the protest to the streets of downtown Berkeley, starting at […]