Mary Ann Smart

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.

A UC Berkeley workgroup released a draft report detailing its recommendations on how departments should issue and attribute political statements, drawing criticism from the Berkeley Faculty Association as a “chilling of free speech.”

The Berkeley community gathered to remember faculty, staff, students and others who died in the last year at a memorial service on Thursday. 

Richard Taruskin, UC Berkeley music professor emeritus and pioneering musical intellectual, died July 1 at the age of 77.

Former campus professor Richard Taruskin has been awarded the Kyoto Prize in the Arts and Philosophy category, making him the first music scholar to receive this prestigious award.

Glaunsinger is one of many female professors at UC Berkeley who is also a mother. These women navigate everyday responsibilities such as breast-feeding, pregnancy and child-rearing — responsibilities that academia does not easily accommodate.

As big as UC Berkeley can feel to students first entering the school, campus leaders are working to build a mentoring program for undergraduates to interact more intimately with their academic interests.