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March 14, 12:29 am

UC Board of Regents to vote on $762 tuition increase for nonresident students

Nonresident students may have to pay $762 more in yearly tuition following a vote by the University of California Board of Regents on Wednesday. The Finance and Capital Strategies Committee approved a recommendation to the regents to increase nonresident supplemental tuition by 2.6 percent during its meeting. Read more...

Photo: The Finance and Capital Strategies Committee approved a recommendation to the University of California Board of Regents to increase nonresident supplemental tuition by 2.6 percent during its meeting. This would increase tuition for nonresident students from $28,992 to $29,754, a difference of $762. (MacKenzie Coffman/Assistant Photo editor)

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March 13, 9:51 pm

Meet-and-greet, town hall facilitate conversation between students, UC Regents

Students voiced concerns about funding and inclusivity to the University of California Regents at a meet-and-greet followed by a town hall discussion on UC budgeting. The Undergraduate Students Association Council external vice president’s office held the two events Tuesday at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center. Read more...

Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council external vice president’s office held a meet-and-greet with the regents and a town hall Tuesday. Aidan Arasasingham, a member of the USAC EVP office and second-year global studies student, planned both events hoping to initiate dialogue between students and UC Regents. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)

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March 12, 12:19 pm

Amid contract negotiations with UC, two employee unions announce they will strike

Two University of California employee unions, representing about 39,000 employees, announced a systemwide strike Friday. University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America 9119, which represents about 14,000 research and technical workers in the UC, issued a notice Friday that it will strike March 20. Read more...

Photo: University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America 9119, which represents about 14,000 research and technical workers in the UC, issued notice Friday that they will strike on March 20. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, the UC’s largest employee union, also announced Friday it would join the strike in solidarity with UPTE-CWA 9119. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)

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March 8, 12:39 am

Trump’s emergency declaration spurs dialogue regarding implications for UC

UCLA student leaders said they oppose President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration and promised to stand by minority groups. Trump announced a national emergency Feb. 15 at the U.S.-Mexico border to access the billions of dollars for a border wall that Congress denied him. Read more...

Photo: Trump announced a national emergency Feb. 15 at the United States-Mexico border to access the billions of dollars for a border wall that Congress denied him. A coalition of 16 states, led by California, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Feb. 18. (Creative Commons photo by Steven Pavlov)

Campus, News, UC

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March 8, 12:23 am

UC opposes academic researchers union, cites lack of ‘community of interest’

University of California academic researchers applied for union representation, but the UC is objecting to the proposed unionization. United Auto Workers Local 5810, a union representing over 6,500 postdoctoral researchers at the UC, submitted a petition to California Public Employment Relations Board in September to add academic researchers to the union under a separate bargaining unit called Academic Researchers United. Read more...

Photo: University of California academic researchers applied to join a union representing postdoctoral researchers. The UC has opposed the move. Academic researchers are a broad group of researchers who are neither postdocs nor tenure-track faculty members. (Courtesy of Academic Researchers United)

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March 7, 12:18 am

UCSA argues nonresident enrollment cap will limit multiculturalism, accessibility

The University of California Student Association sent a letter to the California State Legislature on Wednesday opposing a proposed cap on nonresident student enrollment. The letter, which was written by UCSA President Caroline Siegel-Singh, opposed a proposal by the UC to cap nonresident student enrollment at 10 percent per campus. Read more...

Photo: The University of California Student Association sent a letter to the state Legislature on Wednesday opposing a proposal by the UC to cap nonresident student enrollment at 10 percent per campus. (Daily Bruin file photo)

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March 4, 12:29 am

Women’s conference offers attendees exposure to professional fields

Student government officials hosted an all-day women’s conference to encourage women to pursue leadership positions in the professional world. The LEAN IN UC: UC Women’s Leadership Conference 2019 featured 65 speakers, including Amy Ziering, an Emmy Award-winning documentarian, and Cleo Wade, an artist, poet and author. Read more...

Photo: Speakers, including documentarians, artists and businesswomen, addressed issues like the #MeToo movement’s impact and the creation of change at the LEAN IN UC: UC Women’s Leadership Conference 2019 on Sunday. (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)


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