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Apr 4th, 2016
Californian residents were outraged last week after the state auditor released a report noting that the University of California has recently relaxed standards for nonresident...
Apr 3rd, 2016
One of the more interesting footnotes in the recent state auditor’s report on University of California admissions was the extent to which the booming enrollment in out-of-state...
When UC Berkeley law school professor Mark Gergen was considering a move from Texas in 2007, the biggest factor in his decision was the quality of the...
Apr 1st, 2016
The negotiated pause in the war of words between Sacramento officials and the University of California ended Tuesday when State Auditor Elaine Howle issued a scathing report on...
Mar 30th, 2016
After more than a year of demonstrations by campus subcontracted workers, UC Berkeley has decided to officially insource some of its subcontracted staff, primarily for campus...
Mar 29th, 2016
With labor threatening to throw up a picket line this week around former President Bill Clinton’s big student gathering at UC Berkeley, the cash-tight university agreed to spend...
The University of California did not sufficiently reduce its costs before turning to out-of-state and international students to increase revenues, the state auditor concluded in a...
The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 in Friedrichs v. CTA on Tuesday, thwarting a legal challenge that labor activists feared would deal a crippling blow to public-sector unions...
Mar 28th, 2016
Gov. Jerry Brown joined fellow Democrats and labor leaders Monday in touting California's proposal to gradually lift the minimum wage to $15 an hour as an answer to the growing...
