Benjamin Hermalin

University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, librarians held a public sunshine event Tuesday, inviting public input and kicking off negotiations with the university.

To grease the wheels on months-long contract negotiations, UC Berkeley and UAW 2865 have picked a mediator: Sacramento mayor Darrell Steinberg.

Yogananda Pittman, who currently serves as the assistant chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, was selected as the new UCPD chief to succeed retiring UCPD Chief Margo Bennett.

In an effort to bridge UC Berkeley’s budget shortfall, campus leadership released a number of voluntary actions that department faculty and staff can take.

Faculty and staff were directed by campus administration Monday to largely continue to work from home for the remainder of 2020 because of COVID-19.

For years, UC Berkeley has been working to address low faculty diversity through hiring initiatives despite difficulties posed by California’s ban on affirmative action.

UC Berkeley chancellor’s professor of economics Emi Nakamura received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal on Wednesday — the fourth woman to do so since the award’s inception in 1947.

UC Berkeley has the second highest faculty salaries of all public universities, according to a survey from the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, as first reported by Inside Higher Ed.

About 20 staff members and students attended each meeting to ask the representatives of various working groups questions about the strategic plan.

Pachter, who worked with Speed during his time as a campus assistant professor of mathematics, was a confidante of both Speed and the researcher as the events of the report unfolded. He eventually decided to file the Title IX complaint, which alleged that Speed’s behavior created a “hostile environment” for both Pachter and the researcher.