UC Academic Senate

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 University of California announced open access agreements with academic journals under Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE, and Springer Nature’s Nature portfolio to provide open access scientific journals.

The UC Board of Regents began its final day of meetings by convening the general board to discuss access to higher education for undocumented students, climate change initiatives and a report from the Council of University of California Staff Assemblies, or CUCSA.

The UC Board of Regents met Tuesday to discuss methods of making financial aid letters more accessible for students.

The UCPD is in need of a “visionary and transformative” restructuring in the wake of the national Black Lives Matter movement, the UC Academic Council said in a letter June 29.

For a country founded on the principle that all men are created equal, doing away with the great testing equalizer is a step in the wrong direction.

The UC Academic Council’s Standardized Testing Task Force published its report on the effectiveness of using standardized testing for admissions Monday.

The UC system is considering a proposal to add the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, or SBAC, as an additional factor for freshman admission.

The UC Regents assembled Wednesday at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center for the second day of its regular July meeting. Among the presented topics, the regents discussed student life, implementation of UCOP audit recommendations and potentially adding letters of recommendation to the UC application process.

UC faculty and other non-unionized staff will receive a 3 percent salary increase starting July 1, under a recent directive from UC President Janet Napolitano.