Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos

The ASUC Senate met March 4 to discuss campus updates and changes with Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos and how to better support the Disabled Students' Program.

Rosemarie Rae, the campus vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer, has decided to step down from her position in what she describes as her “quasi-retirement.”

This spring marks the first instance in which the campus administration will grant religious accommodations for the Islamic holiday Ramadan, which this year lasts from May 5 to June 4 — in the middle of which fall final exams.

UC Berkeley’s Office of Planning and Analysis recently released a database that lists student GPAs by major since 2007, revealing a trend of undergraduate grade deflation across a number of humanities and STEM departments.

The University Library is undertaking a $1 million reduction in expenditures for fiscal year 2019, a move which will primarily impact student and faculty access to scholarly resources.

The UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly heard updates Thursday on the future of UC Berkeley’s budget, Title IX protections and the city’s housing crisis.

The positioning of Alivisatos, who interviewed for the chancellor position, invites the question: Does he want to be UC Berkeley’s next Chancellor?

UC Berkeley’s fall 2017 new student convocation was much more a lively, raucous concert than a typical series of speeches.