UC Regents

The UC Board of Regents is set to vote on a potential tuition increase at its meeting March 19. The tuition increase plan would make the amount of tuition undergraduates pay dependent on their families' yearly incomes.

Following Monday’s Bears for Palestine protest, tensions were high during the third ASUC Senate meeting of the semester Wednesday. Public comment speakers were present at the meeting, with most speakers standing in solidarity with BFP and condemning the ASUC’s handling of the situation.

About 80 protesters gathered at a UC Board of Regents meeting Thursday to demand that the UC system divests from the Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, project on Mauna Kea — a mountain that is sacred to Native Hawaiians.

The ASUC Senate held its first meeting of the semester Wednesday, discussing the Wall Street Journal partnership and the absence of gender-neutral bathrooms in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union.

At its Thursday meeting, the city of Berkeley's Rent Stabilization Board invited UC Berkeley students to share their experiences with housing insecurity, in addition to discussing state legislation and hearing appeals.

In the first of several UC Board of Regents meetings at UCSF, the regents Special Committee on Basic Needs met Tuesday to discuss students' basic needs across California and within the UC system.

In a letter addressed Tuesday to the UC Board of Regents, lawyers representing organizations such as the Compton Unified School District and the Community Coalition demanded that the UC system eliminate standardized tests as an admissions requirement.

The ASUC Senate met Wednesday night to discuss philanthropy on campus, the initiatives of the Resident Hall Assembly and updates on executive officials’ various projects.

Seismic concerns have come to the front of many campus community members' minds in recent months, leaving them worried about the potential effects of an earthquake after six campus buildings were found to have a severe implied risk to life.

Fossil Free UC has stated that continued fossil fuel extraction placed the climate, and millions of the world’s most vulnerable people, in harm's way, but the UC Board of Regents continued to invest in them.