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After a six-week-long, UC-wide academic worker strike, many UC Berkeley students continue to grapple with confusion and uncertainty as some grades from the fall semester have yet to be finalized.

The First District Court of Appeal released a tentative decision Dec. 22 regarding the lawsuit filed by Make UC a Good Neighbor against the UC Board of Regents’ Environmental Impact Report for long range developments and student housing on People’s Park.

This policy has been in place since 2010. It’s the end of 2022, and tens of thousands of academic workers represented by UAW local unions are on strike because the UC system isn’t negotiating fairly at the bargaining table to make progress on urgent issues of equity. It’s time for the UC system to show it values its workers from all backgrounds.

Undergraduate students rallied in support of the ongoing academic worker strike at 3 p.m. Friday in front of the Campanile before marching to UC President Michael Drake’s house in the Berkeley Hills

Four bargaining units of UAW, which represents nearly 50,000 student academic workers and researchers across the UC, voted to strike Wednesday evening with 98% in favor to strike.

A proposal that would make ethnic studies an A-G requirement for California schools has been formally on the table since October 2020. Now two years later, the discussion continues with a working group assigned to tackle implementation concerns in July.

To be a Hispanic-serving institution, or HSI, at least 25% of a not-for-profit institution’s full-time undergraduates must be Hispanic. Today, 21 of the 23 CSU campuses and six of the nine UC campuses with undergraduate education are HSIs. UC Berkeley, currently, is not.

Easy access to menstrual products is essential for students’ holistic health and academic success.

Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and academic researchers have won protections against bullying and abusive workplace conduct in a tentative agreement with the UC system.