Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate

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.

Students lack information and guidance as grading formats change due to new policies enacted by UC Berkeley’s Academic Senate amidst the UC-wide academic worker strike.

Even after UC Berkeley’s Academic Senate enacted a contingency plan Nov. 28 to address the disruption caused by the UC-wide academic worker strike, questions surrounding assignment grading remain for faculty and students alike.

UC Berkeley community members have criticized proposed changes to the campus library system announced Oct. 3, which would limit services and close the Anthropology, Mathematics Statistics and Physics-Astronomy libraries.

UC Berkeley selected Oliver O’Reilly as the vice provost for undergraduate education and Victoria Plaut as the vice provost for faculty.

After UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, or CED, announced a pass/no pass, or P/NP, grading alternative for the 2020 fall semester Saturday, UC Berkeley College of Engineering, or COE, is now the only campus undergraduate college that has yet to determine whether or not a P/NP policy will be adopted in light of the pandemic.

A petition to the UC Berkeley Division of Student Affairs calling for a pass/no pass, or P/NP, grading option for all classes and major requirements for fall 2020 has garnered 5,420 signatures as of publication time since its creation Monday.

The ASUC Office of the Academic Affairs is seeking to relax the pass/no pass, or P/NP, unit cap, among other academic policy recommendations for this semester.

A recent tweet criticizing a UC Berkeley electrical engineering and computer sciences professor’s proposed 80-hour weekly academic workload has outraged many community members. But this incident is symptomatic of a larger issue: the toxic work culture on this campus. UC Berkeley is often stereotyped as the “workaholic” UC campus, and it’s time for the community to acknowledge how harmful that title really is.

Robinson has served as the interim chief campus counsel since October 2017. Christopher Patti, the previous chief campus counsel, was killed in a bicycle accident in August 2017. Starting in June, Robinson’s appointment will become permanent.