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Across AFSCME 3299 wage scales, about 45% of service worker positions and about 5% of technical patient care worker positions at UC Berkeley earn less than $25 per hour, according to a Daily Californian analysis.

The UC Transfer Admission Guarantee program, or TAG, guarantees California community college students entry into participating university schools if they satisfy all admission requirements. Currently, the Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara campuses participate in the program.

The UC Board of Regents discussed the approval of the UC San Diego chancellor’s additional compensation as well as UC employee housing programs during a special board meeting on Thursday.

The University of California Museum of Paleontology has established the new William A. Clemens Memorial Fund in Vertebrate Paleontology.

On March 13, the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, announced the naming of Sharon Adesokan as its first Health Care Facilitator, or HCF. 

The UC Board of Regents reconvened Thursday to discuss UC Berkeley’s library closures, UC investment assets and more.

The UC Board of Regents convened Wednesday morning at the UCSF Mission Bay center for a two-day long meeting and discussed the UC-wide student housing crisis, worker wages and more.

After protests brought demonstrators to the Berkeley residence of UC president Michael Drake, the UC system is constructing a fence around the home. 

The university now requires students to take 18 units of the 180 units required to graduate in person to get their degree, according to Melanie Cocco, chair of the University Committee on Educational Policy.

The California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, has become embroiled in controversy recently, with its latest application wielded to block UC Berkeley’s housing plans for People’s Park.