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Jul 29th, 2011
SACRAMENTO – The University of California is being criticized in a new state-commissioned audit for failing to release detailed financial information about how it spends...
Jul 19th, 2011
State Sen. Leland Yee reintroduced a bill on Monday that would block pay raises for California's top public university administrators in years when there's a budget...
Jun 23rd, 2011
Among a seemingly long list of cuts to the various areas of state funding — which includes an already approved $500 million cut to the UC and a $500 million cut to the CSU — a...
Jun 22nd, 2011
By 7 a.m., when engineering students begin to trickle into Cory Hall at UC Berkeley, Arnold Meza has already scrubbed the floors, wiped clean the chalkboards, and emptied the...
Jun 20th, 2011
With a few words in the new state budget, lawmakers will ban spending taxpayer money on intercollegiate athletics - and end a controversy that started when a sharp-eyed UC...
Mar 10th, 2011
This week the Chronicle majorly attacked State Sen. Leland Yee, claiming Yee tried “to distort the words” of billionaire investment banker and UC Regent David Crane on...
Mar 9th, 2011
In its March 8 editorial, “State Sen. Leland Yee's attack on the truth,” the San Francisco Chronicle claims that “Yee, a San Francisco...
Mar 5th, 2011
Sen. Juan Vargas, a Democrat representing a chunk of San Diego, has introduced a new bill that would bar government entities from hiring outside firms to challenge public...
Mar 4th, 2011
Today, Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) was joined by hundreds of community members and public employees to rally against Regent Crane’s recent attack on working families....