Janet Gilmore

Omi Salas-SantaCruz, a former UC Berkeley employee and Ph.D. student in the campus School of Education, filed a lawsuit against campus and School of Education Professor Patricia Baquedano-López on Nov. 17 alleging discrimination on the basis of their nonbinary identity. 

Week three of the UAW strike came to a head with sit-ins at California Hall, when 150 academic workers occupied the building from Thursday morning to Friday afternoon, according to campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore.

Striking UAW academic workers occupied UC Berkeley's Eshleman Hall and California Hall Thursday in a continuation of the ongoing strike activities, while picketers outside voiced support for their respective bargaining teams by chanting and displaying banners on the steps of the halls.

The United States Department of Justice, or DOJ, filed a proposed consent decree in federal court, resolving allegations that UC Berkeley is in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA.

Amid the ongoing academic workers’ strike throughout the UC system, those in the UC Berkeley departments of electrical engineering and computer science, or EECS, data science and statistics have noted that cases of overtime work and long office hours are common problems being faced by undergraduate and graduate student instructors.

UC Berkeley ranked fourth in the 2022-23 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities rankings, claiming its spot as the No. 1 public university in the world.

UC Berkeley professor Elizabeth Hoover, who often worked with students in the campus Indigenous Community Learning Garden, released a statement Oct. 20 on her personal website revealing that she has no Native American ancestry.

More than three weeks after a vigil held by the local Iranian community for Mahsa Amini, Iranian students persist in asking for direct support from UC Berkeley as protests continue to escalate around the world. 

To prioritize in-state applicants, the University of California is complying with state legislative initiatives to limit nonresident admissions over the next five years. 

Three suspects were arrested and charged in connection to an early morning Southside shooting on Oct. 8 that left one dead and three injured, according to a Nixle alert from the Berkeley Police Department.