Kailey Martinez-Ramage

At its Thursday meeting, the UC Board of Regents discussed how the university will need to adapt to accommodate projected population changes in California over the next two decades.

At its Wednesday meeting, the UC Board of Regents discussed seven of the 13 academic elements in the 2015-16 budget framework developed by the university and Gov. Jerry Brown.

In an effort toward greater academic racial equity, the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education assessed recent policy changes as part of the implementation of a state-mandated academic improvement effort at its regular meeting Wednesday.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) announced the donation of two decades of her congressional papers to UC Berkeley — including the largest digital collection Bancroft Library has ever received — on Thursday morning.

Canopy, a cannabis industry investor, is currently hosting a 16-week entrepreneurial bootcamp in Berkeley for nine cannabis ancillary startups.

It will feature a 52-meter training pool with a bulkhead and the campus's first ever diving tower, according to campus Real Estate Division spokesperson Christine Shaff.

UC Berkeley is expected to welcome 3,000 transfer students in the fall and spring — about 800 more than last year's incoming class, according to campus projections based on preliminary enrollment data.

UC Berkeley will begin construction in late 2017 on an approximately 10-story hotel on University Avenue and Oxford Street, located across from campus in Downtown Berkeley.

Under the new UC Berkeley course enrollment system CalCentral, there is now a hard cap on enrolling in more than 16 units, which has left some students unable to add their desired classes.

Berkeley City Council voted July 19 to adopt a resolution calling on the city to divest from private prisons and to send a letter to the city’s business partners requesting them to do the same.