Dan Mogulof

Newsom’s revised proposal now accounts for a projected $31.5 billion “shortfall,” or deficit, an increase from the governor’s January budget which estimated approximately $22.5 billion in deficit, according to the May revision.

Resources for Community Development, or RCD, the developer of the supportive housing at People’s Park, has pulled out of the project, according to an RCD statement.

In a letter sent to UC President Drake on April 21, members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs informed Drake that the UC system has failed to “expeditiously” return Indigenous ancestral remains and cultural artifacts.

In 2022, UC Berkeley received almost 3,000 information and record requests through the California Public Records Act, or CPRA. On April 26, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit alleging that campus had failed to fulfill its legal responsibilities to make its records “promptly available” for public review.

The City of Berkeley is looking to purchase University Inn and convert it into permanent supportive housing for high-needs and chronically houseless people. 

UC Berkeley is currently facing a potential $82 million dollar budget deficit. Chancellor Carol Christ updated the community on budget plans during a Campus Conversation on March 27. 

An unidentified female adult was found dead Tuesday in a tent at People’s Park, according to UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof.

UC Berkeley announced that the Anthropology Library would be closing along with two others in a campuswide email Feb. 23 due to a lack of funding. The decision was met with student protest immediately after.

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

Fossil Free Research and Data for Progress released a report Wednesday on fossil fuel funding at prominent U.S. universities. Campus has received $155.9 million from big oil and fossil fuel companies between 2010 and 2020.