Claire Holmes

The UC Board of Regents convened virtually Wednesday to discuss changes to the UC admissions process, professional program tuition and sources of external funding, among other topics.

On its final day of virtual meetings this week, the UC Board of Regents discussed university donations, alternatives to college entrance exams and the state of the COVID-19 pandemic.

If passed in November, Proposition 14 will authorize $5.5 billion dollars in general obligation bonds to fund the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s, or CIRM’s, stem cell research grants.

On Wednesday, 39 California congressional members wrote a letter to the UC Board of Regents to oppose UC affiliations that may impose religious restrictions on health care.

An emailed statement from Lalanne at the time of his resignation shows that administrators’ move to eliminate the vice chancellorship prompted Lalanne’s resignation — not the other way around.

A new campus policy that requires dogs on campus to be on a leash was approved Friday, following a number of reported incidents of dog-related fights including one where a service dog was threatened by an off-leash dog.

Last weekend, an emergency exit was built in Chancellor Nicholas Dirks’ office as a security measure against potential protesters.

Following the dismissal of assistant Cal men’s basketball coach Yann Hufnagel in light of his violation of UC sexual harassment policy, UC Berkeley’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination, or OPHD, released a redacted review Monday that it conducted regarding the actions taken by the athletics department in wake of the incident.

Students, community members and sexual violence resource groups gathered on Sproul Plaza on Wednesday evening for the annual Take Back the Night, or TBTN, event to promote sexual violence awareness and empower survivors.