Bay Area Sports ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ Coming to Berkeley Saturday for Big Cal Game The Cal Golden Bears will be in the national spotlight Saturday as ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ will be broadcast live from Berkeley for the first time ever, but if you want to get your sign on TV, you better get there by 6 am.
SF News UC Says No to Proposed Campus In SF's Downtown A kind of moonshot proposal to install a new University of California campus in downtown San Francisco — one of a number of ideas that have been thrown out there in the last year by the mayor to bring new life to downtown — has been declined by the university.
SF News University of California Might Give London Breed That SF Expansion Campus She’s Been Hankering For It seemed like a desperate trial balloon to fill vacant office space when Mayor London Breed asked the UC system to build an expanded campus in San Francisco, but now the university acknowledges they are at least “exploring” the idea.
SF News Jewish Group Sues UC Berkeley Law School Over Student Groups' Anti-Zionism Stance A Jewish advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. has filed a lawsuit that alleges that UC Berkeley's law school has permitted the "longstanding, unchecked spread of antisemitism" among its student groups.
SF News Affirmative Action Decision at Supreme Court Will Likely Mean Less Diversity at California's Private Universities After the conservative-dominated Supreme Court ruled today that race-conscious admissions policies are unconstitutional, the repercussions in higher education are likely to be felt most acutely at the most in-demand and prestigious universities.
SF News UC Law SF To Open 656-Unit Student Housing Complex in the Tenderloin This Summer The former UC Hastings, which now goes by the moniker UC Law SF, is making an attempt to rebrand the Tenderloin too, with a $229 million, 656-unit graduate student housing complex slated to open this summer.
SF News UC Berkeley Loses Court Fight, Will Have to Cap Enrollment at 2020 Level The University of California just lost one of its appeals to the state Supreme Court, which means it will have to withhold around 5,000 acceptance letters that it was intending to send out to incoming first-year students in the next few weeks.
SF News Dozens of Rich White Kids Got 'Inappropriate Admissions’ to UC Berkeley, Says State Audit Another “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal hits UC Berkeley, as a new audit finds students from households with donor and staff connections inappropriately cruised through the admissions process.
SF News UC Admissions Standards Lowered For Out-Of-State Students Who Pay Higher Tuition, Audit Reveals A quadruple increase over the last decade of out-of-state students who pay higher tuition at the University of California but who may have lower grades and test scores has "undermined" the 10-school system's
SF News University of California Adopts Transgender-Inclusive Restrooms by Eric Wuestewald On Monday, University of California President Janet Napolitano instructed the 10-campus school system to install gender-neutral restrooms to better accommodate LGBT individuals. The result is a huge victory for gay
SF News College Sex Bill Would Require Formal Consent Before On-Campus Relations A bill that would require prior, written or verbal consent before having sex on college campuses is currently working its way through the California state legislature. If passed, any two parties wishing to
SF News UC System Turn To Crowdsourcing, Jamie Foxx To Raise Scholarship Funds All the rage with the startup crowd and starving musicians, crowdsourced funding has now come to the University of California schools. Under a new campaign launched yesterday, the UC system allows smaller donors
SF News Colbert Takes On Rick Santorum's Stupid Claim About California Universities Disgraced GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum claimed earlier this week that the University of California is responsible for ruining this country because they don't teach American history. This, of course, isn't true. All
SF News Rick Santorum Claims California Universities Are Ruining America Today at a campaign event in Wisconsin, Republican presidential hopeful and jellybean fan Rick Santorum attempted to demonize California for eroding the values of Heartland, America. Santorum, who also believes that Obama was
SF News UC Considers Students' 'Delayed Tuition' Proposal Fix UC, a group of students at UC Riverside, have come up with a rather impressive proposal that would delay students' tuition until after they graduate, which they say could triple UC's revenue
SF News UC Board Sticks Students With Another Bump in Tuition The Board of Regents for the University of California system approved another 9.6% increase to tuition at UC schools today. According to KTVU, the new cost of a year's tuition comes to
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Hunger Strike Day 8 Did you know that several students at UC Berkeley are once again in the midst of a hunger strike? True. This time they're protesting the erosion of the school's Ethnic Studies program. According
SF News Egyptian Students at Cal Organize Protest to Help Their Families, Friends Early this morning, the pro-democracy demonstrators in Egypt were assaulted first by supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak charging them on horses and camels, then by automatic weapon fire. That's why for Salma
SF News UC Students Removed from Egypt After political unrest hit Egypt eight days ago (which has since turned violent), 19 UC students "and at least 13 other adults" have been evacuated. According to the UC Office of the President,
misc Meanwhile, in Berkeley: UC Tuition Riots Inspire Photography Course In a slow-week feature yesterday, the Chronicle detailed a one-credit, freshman seminar at UC Berkeley that strives to help students perfect the art of "Photographing History in the Making." Of course, we've all
SF News UC Librarians Get Politely Vicious About Being Gouged for Subscriptions Here's a funny bit: Librarians at various UC schools are waging a quiet war against Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of influential journals like Nature and Scientific American who have raised the cost
SF News Cal Chancellor’s Mansion Vandalized; Eight Arrested On Saturday night, eight protesters were arrested after breaking windows, lights and planters outside the home of University of California at Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau. "University spokesman Dan Mogulof said 40 to 70
SF News Congratulations, Cal Fulbright Scholars The kids at UC Berkeley have even more reason to brag about their top-ranked stoner school today. Cal will be sending two research students abroad to play beer pong in more esteemed and
SF News Cops Get Tough With UC Berkeley Protesters Oh dear. We found this charming video, which you can view after the jump, over at SF Appeal. It seems that during today's UC Berkeley fee-hike protest, some students got a bit rowdy.
SF News UC Berkeley Protest Update The Daily Cal reports that somewhere around 60 protesters have locked themselves inside Wheeler Hall. And...they're still there! (What happened to the crowbar, cops?) Wheeler Hall, obviously, is closed for the day.
