Christine Tyler

Following the closure of Kroeber Hall during the Sept. 14th Ohio State game, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate will review policies governing how campus space is used by commercial enterprises.

If appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, UC Berkeley professor emerita Janet Yellen, the front runner for the position, will bring with her a wealth of economic experience from her time on campus and in other government posts.

UC Berkeley has just completed an extensive self-study, as part of renewing its institutional accreditation.

At a talk Monday morning during this year's TechCrunch Disrupt SF, California’s Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom discussed how technology relates to the future of higher education.

Pandagrader, a project spearheaded by Professor Pieter Abeel, is a system where exams are uploaded via scanning to a login-based online system, enabling viewing and grading of exams on a personal computer.

On Tuesday the federal government dismissed a complaint that UC Berkeley administrators did not do enough to curb “an environment hostile to Jewish students” as a result of student demonstrations against Israeli policies.

UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has raised their mean undergraduate GPA caps to provide more flexibility when evaluating student performance.

Berkeley’s Willard Middle School has been selected by education researchers as a model of inclusive education.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau received Centro Legal de la Raza’s Visionary Leadership Award on Friday for his work in assisting undocumented students.