UC News

October 12, 2017

UCSA Launches 3 Campaigns For 2017-18 School Year

By Anjalie Tandon

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) will mount three undergraduate campaigns fighting for students’ rights for the 2017-18 school year: UC Sustain Our Students (SOS), reIGNITE and We Are 3D.

May 21, 2017

Regents Approve Nonresident Enrollment Cap

By Tamari Dzotsenidze

The University of California Board of Regents approved an 18 percent cap of nonresident enrollment across the UCs on Thursday.

May 18, 2017

Protests Halt UC Regents Meeting

By Tamari Dzotsenidze

The public forum with UC Regents was set to discuss proposed UC-wide tuition hikes but ended with protests and police intervention.

May 18, 2017

Four Years Later, Still a ‘No’ for Israel Divestment

By Maura Fox

Following the Associated Students Senate’s failure to pass the resolution to divest from companies that allegedly aid Israel in human rights violations against Palestinians, UC Santa Barbara is the last University of C...

April 27, 2017

UC Office of the President Responds to Allegations of Inflating Budgets, Editing Statements, More

By Tamari Dzotsenidze

“It is outrageous and unjust to force tuition hikes on students while the U.C. hides secret funds," said UC Regent and Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.

April 23, 2017

Healthcare Scheme Steals Nearly $12 Million From UC System, Student Personal Information

By Tamari Dzotsenidze

The UCOP announced Thursday that the university has uncovered a fraudulent scheme that has stolen almost $12 million through the student health plan.

April 6, 2017

UCs See Drop in International Applicants

By Megan Mineiro

UC Santa Barbara saw a 10 percent increase in international undergraduate applicants for the 2016-17 admissions cycle, while two fellow UC campuses saw the first decreases in more than a decade.

March 31, 2017

Fossil Fuel Activists Call UC Disinvestment ‘Just a Drop in the Bucket’

By Jose Ochoa

The UC Regents investments office announced earlier in March that it has removed approximately $150 million of its investments in fossil fuel companies since 2014, but student activists say they will continue to pressure...

March 9, 2017

A Closer Look at Title IX Policy Changes

By Maura Fox

Since Title IX passed into law in 1972, the University of California has made critical changes to the policy that have affected the way its campuses respond to sexual misconduct and handle such investigations.

March 1, 2017

Documents Obtained by ‘Daily Californian’ Reveal 113 Cases of Sexual Misconduct Across UC

By Josh Ortiz

Approximately one-third of the faculty, staff and coaches named in the documents still work for the UC, according to Daily Cal.

January 26, 2017

Regents Address Tuition

By Jose Ochoa

The UC Board of Regents met in San Francisco Wednesday to discuss a proposal to raise tuition for the first time since 2011.

January 19, 2017

Salvaty To Be Title IX Coordinator

By Jose Ochoa

Kathleen Salvaty will be appointed the new system-wide Title IX coordinator for the University of California, the UC Office of the President announced last Thursday.

January 12, 2017

Brown: More Funding, Less Aid in the UCs

By Josh Ortiz

Gov. Jerry Brown proposed higher funding for the University of California in his budget proposal released Tuesday, allocating $146.7 million more to the UC system.

November 18, 2016

Student Protesters Force Regents to Table Tuition Hike

By Tamari Dzotsenidze

Approximately 150 students from several UC campuses gathered outside the UC Regents meeting Thursday in protest of a proposed tuition hike, forcing the Regents to table its approval until January.

November 18, 2016

Walkout To Defy Possible UC Tuition Hikes

By Deepika Chandrashekar

Student activists plan to simultaneously leave their classes Monday in protest of a proposed tuition increase for all University of California students.