Michael Cohen

By a vote of 17-5, the UC Board of Regents passed a multi-year tuition and financial aid plan Thursday that will begin in fall of 2022. 

During its meeting Thursday, the UC Board of Regents discussed the UC Health strategic plan, a small business program and a tuition increase plan. 

Some UC Berkeley professors are choosing to offer their class lectures online and free of charge to the public on platforms such as the UCTV YouTube channel and edX, a website for free online classes.

The UC Board of Regents met for a second day at UCSF on Wednesday to discuss financial aid, workers’ pension funds and federal advocacy.

With UC President Janet Napolitano stepping down this coming August, UC Board of Regents chair John Pérez has appointed a Special Committee to Consider the Selection of a President.

19 scholars spanning across a variety of disciplines were named members of the inaugural academic advisory board for the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.

The UC Board of Regents met with the Investments Subcommittee and newly created Basic Needs Committee on Tuesday, the first of its regular three-day meeting, at UCSF Mission Bay.

The new appointees are Laphonza Butler, Michael Cohen, Cecilia V. Estolano and Richard H. Leib. All four appointees will need to be confirmed by the state Senate.

Michael Cohen, a rising star in the computer science field and a research fellow at the UC Berkeley Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, died last week in Berkeley at the age of 25. Berkeley police said he died of natural causes, but the specific cause of death is still pending.

Despite the cancellation of “Free Speech Week” at UC Berkeley, about 200 people marched from Crescent Lawn to Wheeler Hall on Monday afternoon to protest militarization and police presence on campus.