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Mar 19th, 2015
A day after dismissing student protests as “crap,” University of California President Janet Napolitano apologized for her remark caught on an open...
Mar 13th, 2015
When Gov. Jerry Brown took office in 2011, one of his first acts was to make state employees give back their sweet government cellphones and state...
Feb 14th, 2015
When he was inaugurated for his fourth term last month, Gov. Jerry Brown pointedly noted that California students should not have to be “the default financiers of our colleges...
Feb 11th, 2015
Kathryn Lybarger, president of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, has been elected president of the California Labor...
When the University of California, Santa Barbara, announced last month that it had been named a Hispanic-Serving Institution, it made a small bit of...
Feb 10th, 2015
A 2011 state audit found huge disparities in the amount of money the University of California doles out to its ten campuses – from $12,309 per student at UC Santa Barbara to...
Feb 3rd, 2015
Gov. Jerry Brown has added a few splashes of detail to his civil-service agenda for 2015 with a handful of state budget bill proposals posted online by his Department of...
Jan 14th, 2015
A surge in interest from out-of-state and international students drove another year of record application numbers at the University of California, according to data released this...
Jan 9th, 2015
Despite a major push for more funding by the University of California, Gov. Jerry Brown held steady on an already-promised $120 million increase in his proposed budget Friday, and...