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Berkeley is Burned Up About the Big Tree Brouhaha
Berkeley Daily Planet
This EIS was triggered by four grant applications submitted to FEMA by the East Bay Regional Park District, the University of California at Berkeley, and the city of Oakland, asking for funding for various tree clearance projects aimed, applicants said ...

Berkeleyside
The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
Berkeleyside
EMERGING ARTISTS The University of California Berkeley's Master of Fine Arts graduate exhibition provides a chance to see emerging artists at the start of their careers. The six graduating MFA artists this year are Dru Anderson, Dusadee Pang Huntrakul, ...

Israel divestment vote at UC Berkeley the latest sign of hostile campus ...
Heritage Florida Jewish News
April's Israel divestment vote at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is just the latest unfortunate expression of how hateful an environment the anti-Israel movement can create for Jewish students and supporters of Israel on campus. I ...

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It's Official – New Berkeley Schools Chief OKed
Patch.com
Dr. Evans earned his Doctorate in 2010 from the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, in association with the Leadership in Educational Equity Program. His dissertation topic was on “Understanding Why Principals Leave ...

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Feds May Clear-Cut 82000 Trees Near UC Berkeley
NBC Bay Area
The University of California Berkeley applied for a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut down the trees, which the school says are a fire hazard, the California Progress Report reported. The plan, according to the Web site, is to ...

Las Vegas Review-Journal
UC Berkeley law student in Vegas exotic bird death takes plea
KTVU San Francisco
A University of California, Berkeley, law school graduate has taken a plea deal in the beheading of an exotic bird last October at a Las Vegas Strip resort, officials said Thursday. Hazhir Kargaran, 26, appeared in Las Vegas Court on Wednesday and ...
3rd UC Berkeley law school student in Vegas exotic bird beheading takes pleaSan Jose Mercury News
3rd law student charged in beheading of exotic Vegas bird takes misdemeanor ...ABA Journal
Hazir Kargaran, third Calif. law student, charged in Las Vegas exotic bird ...CBS News
Las Vegas Review-Journal -NBC Bay Area -Las Vegas Sun
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UC Berkeley
World's top scientists: California & nations must act now on environment
UC Berkeley
Jerry Brown discussing Earth's tipping point with UC Berkeley professor Tony Barnosky at the WEST Summit 2013. Barnosky led an effort to provide Brown and other world leaders with a playbook on how to address global environmental problems such as ...
Global Scientists, California Governor Call for Climate ActionEnvironment News Service
Gov Brown keeps pressing climate change crusade89.3 KPCC
Brown Continues Climate Change CrusadeKMJ Now
City Journal
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
3rd UC Berkeley law school student in Vegas exotic bird beheading takes plea
San Jose Mercury News
LAS VEGAS -- A University of California, Berkeley, law school graduate has pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors for his role in the beheading of an exotic bird last October at a Las Vegas Strip resort. Prosecutor Frank Coumou (koo-MOH') says 26-year ...
UC Berkeley law student in Vegas exotic bird death takes pleaKTVU San Francisco
Third Suspect - Cal Student - Charged With Killing Exotic BirdNBC Bay Area
Hazir Kargaran, third Calif. law student, charged in Las Vegas exotic bird ...CBS News
ABA Journal -Las Vegas Review-Journal -Las Vegas Sun
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Philly.com
Federal complaint filed against UC Berkeley over handling of rape cases
KTVU San Francisco
Allred said complaints were filed Wednesday against USC, Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College and the University of California at Berkeley. "We are asking the Department of Education to open an investigation into these complaints and take appropriate ...
UC Berkeley Targeted In Federal Complaint Over Its Handling Of Rape AllegationsCBS Local
Sexual Assaults Mishandled At Dartmouth, Swarthmore, USC, Complaints SayHuffington Post
Students Allege Four Major Universities Violated Federal Sexual Assault PolicyThinkProgress
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) -Valley News -Philly.com
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Ansal University's Disha Sahu Selected for '2013 BERKELEY PRIZE Travel Fellow'
Moneylife
The BERKELEY PRIZE Competition was established in 1998, made possible by a generous gift of Judith Lee Stronach to the Department of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Through three distinct ...

Philly.com
UC Berkeley Targeted In Federal Complaint Over Its Handling Of Rape Allegations
CBS Local
Allred joined students from the colleges at a New York City news conference to announce the filing of complaints against Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley. She said ...
Federal complaint filed against UC Berkeley over handling of rape casesKTVU San Francisco
Sexual Assaults Mishandled At Dartmouth, Swarthmore, USC, Complaints SayHuffington Post
4 More Colleges Are Targets of Students' Complaints Over Sexual AssaultChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Valley News -Philly.com -The Dartmouth
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UC Berkeley
Campus to share expertise with Middle Eastern research center
UC Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley, plans to share scientific and engineering expertise with the Middle East's first major international research center, which is a unique collaboration among scientists from many countries in the region, including ...

UC Berkeley
Help wanted: Public needed to uncover clues in natural history collections
UC Berkeley
These are just some of the reasons why people should join a project led by the University of California, Berkeley's Essig Museum of Entomology. UC Berkeley graduate student, Joan Ball, holds a display of specimens at the Essig Museum of Entomology.
CU-Boulder helps tap crowds to digitize museum records of bugs and plantsCU Boulder News & Events

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University's Israel divestment vote is latest sign of hostile environment
Jewish Advocate
A pril's Israel divestment vote at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is just the latest unfortunate expression of how hateful an environment the anti-Israel movement can create for Jewish students and supporters of Israel on campus ...

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Brown's Commencement Address at UC Berkeley
MyMotherLode.com
Mark Truppner, MML Reporter. Governor Jerry Brown delivered the commencement address to the University of California, Berkeley's political science graduates. Brown was Tuesday's KVML "Newsmaker of the Day". Here's the text of the Governor's address: ...

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San Francisco Chronicle
Brown cites safety in possible Bay Bridge delay
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
Brown spoke to reporters Monday before delivering a graduation speech for University of California, Berkeley political science students. The Sacramento Bee http://bit.ly/Z8qthw quoted him as saying, "I drive across that bridge, too." He says the ...
Calif. gov cites safety in possible bridge delaySeattle Post Intelligencer
Jerry Brown on Bay Bridge: 'First we want to make it safe'Sacramento Bee (blog)

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Governor Brown Delivers Commencement Address at UC Berkeley
Imperial Valley News
Berkeley, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today delivered the commencement address to the University of California, Berkeley's political science graduates: First of all. Congratulations to all you graduates. It is not an easy or trouble free ...

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One of the main questions presented at the last UC regents meeting was why do only 60% of UC students graduate in four years. While President Yudof celebrated this rate, Governor Brown was not very pleased, and both men indicated that online education may be the solution to the problem. However, what should be clear is that the university needs to do a comprehensive study to determine the main causes for the different graduation rates on the various campuses.

In my interviews with students, I have found that the biggest reasons for a delay in graduation is that students switch majors, they fail out of courses, they cannot get required courses, they do not qualify for their intended majors, they have to work to pay for their living expenses, they do not think there are any jobs for them after graduation, they pursue double majors, they do not receive adequate advising, they have medical problems and personal issues. Students also complain about the number of requirements for certain majors and their dislike of large lecture classes. A comprehensive survey of the UC system would help to determine what is really happening on a local level.

Another important aspect of this problem is the question of how much money individual campuses dedicate to undergraduate instruction. UCOP has reported on the increase in classes and the decrease in faculty relative to the number of students, but it is still unclear what has caused these changes. After all, during the last five years, while the state did reduce the UC budget by $1 billion, total tuition revenue went up by over $1.2 billion. It would seem that as students pay more for their education, they would get more support and smaller classes instead of less support and larger classes, but as this blog has stressed, the university continues to use undergraduate funds to subsidize many other university functions.

Since President Yudof claims that tuition increases have only covered 38% of state reductions, he has opened the door for the state to argue that tuition can be frozen for the next four years. Once again manipulated budget numbers are coming back to bite the UC. If the UC had instead stated the truth that tuition dollars have outpaced state reductions, it would have been much harder for the governor and the legislature to simply tell the UC to stop raising tuition. While I am not calling for a tuition increase, I am arguing that false and misleading budgetary numbers always seem to backfire on the UC.

Our Emotions Match Colors to Music, Says Berkeley Study
WQXR Radio (blog)
According to a study by the University of California, Berkeley, we are hardwired to associate anything from Ravel to Radiohead with a particular hue from the color spectrum. For instance, Mozart's perky Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major is most often ...

Ex-Detroit Pistons star Isiah Thomas earns master's degree at UC Berkeley
Detroit Free Press
Thomas graduated with a masters of education from the University of California at Berkeley, tweeting his cap and gown and retweeting congratulations to other UC Berkeley graduates. He said in a recent Huffington Post story that he has “studied the ...

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