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Plans to demolish and replace Evans Hall and renovate UC Berkeley's Bechtel Engineering Center were approved by the UC Regents Wednesday.

The UC system’s patent tracking system will be entirely replaced with a new intellectual property management system within the next five years.

Represented by the UAW union, 48,000 academic workers across the UC campuses are negotiating with the University of California, or UC, to demand greater progress on social and economic issues. 

The eight rent-controlled units that once encompassed 1921 Walnut St. are now little more than a barren construction site.

California Native American students from both federally and non-federally recognized tribes will have their university tuition and fees waived for the 2022-2023 academic year. 

In 2020, the university’s decision to no longer require SAT and ACT scores in admissions prompted a flurry of emotions from the campus community and beyond.

If the IREF passes, students will face an additional $132 semesterly fee to pay for items that should be coming out of campus’s existing budget.

In multiple meetings Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents discussed finances, accommodations and new initiatives, among other topics.

Teamsters Local 2010 — a labor union that represents more than 14,000 UC and CSU workers — organized a statewide Week of Action calling for “more adequate” CX worker pay and an end to the pay disparity between those workers and management within the two institutions.

The annual Diversity in Tech Symposium on March 10 and 11 focused on advancing climate resilience, with experts in climate tech and environmental justice.