Shayann Hendricks

The UC Berkeley ethnic studies department and multicultural major programs have historically struggled to maintain their funding in the face of campus budget cuts.

Tuition hikes such as these essentially punish nonresident students from low-income backgrounds, forcing them to borrow and accept larger loans while offering them virtually no financial aid.

More than 400 workers, students and community members took to the streets Wednesday in a rally organized by AFSCME Local 3299 to protest widening racial and gender pay gaps in the UC workforce.

During the session, UAW Local 2865 made several demands, including that the university provide a plan for affordable housing, establish sanctuary campuses, put an end to police brutality on UC campuses and expand support for student families.

The UC Board of Regents' Finance and Capital Strategies Committee approved a 3.5 percent, or $978, increase on the nonresident supplemental tuition starting in the 2018-19 school year at its regular meeting Wednesday — sending it to the UC Board of Regents for a final vote on Thursday.

Following protocol, campus custodians and groundskeepers will throw the contents of compost and recycling bins into landfill dumpsters if they feel that the bins have been “contaminated."

UC Berkeley hosted the "Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50" conference this week to commemorate the findings of the Kerner Report.

The Anti-Trafficking Coalition at Berkeley hosted the Vietnamese American Community Center of the East Bay on Tuesday for an immigration workshop as part of its Week of Action.

It has been nearly two years since then-UC Berkeley student Khairuldeen Makhzoomi was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight after speaking Arabic before take-off — now, Makhzoomi is filing a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines for racial discrimination, among other charges.