The Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of First Amendment and Equal Protection claims against University of California officials brought by a woman whose plans to attend a speech by far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley were thwarted by protests. The woman’s battery claim against one of the protesters, however, was improperly dismissed.
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The University of California Board of Regents voted unanimously to approve Michael Drake, former president of Ohio State University and the University of California, Irvine, as the first black UC president in the 152-year history of the higher education system.
Read moreThe University of California regents unanimously endorsed affirmative action Monday nearly two decades after the practice was banned throughout the UC system as institutions throughout the state and nation continue to grapple with racial equality in America.
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Thousands of people marched through the University of California, Los Angeles, campus Thursday to commemorate the lives of people killed by police across the nation and to protest the university’s decision to allow police to use a campus stadium as a field jail for demonstrators.
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The University of California system will no longer use the SAT or ACT standardized tests as a consideration for admission after the UC Regents voted unanimously to discontinue its use during its meeting on Thursday.
Read moreA California judge on Friday signed off on an $84.5 million settlement between the University of California and a class of former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees in a deal that will secure lifetime health care benefits for roughly 9,000 retirees, their spouses and dependents.
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A group of students and education reform advocates sued the University of California system Tuesday, claiming its use of SAT and ACT test scores in admissions discriminates against low-income and minority applicants.
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Thousands of members with the largest union of university employees in California went on statewide strike Wednesday to bring attention to job outsourcing and stalled contract negotiations.
Read moreA class action claims the University of California charges unlawful and unconscionable late fees to students who are tardy in paying at least seven sorts of charges, in Alameda County Court.
Read moreCalifornia lawmakers on Wednesday voted unanimously to allow college athletes to accept paid endorsements, ignoring the NCAA’s warnings that the move could make the state’s powerhouse universities ineligible for events like the Final Four and Rose Bowl.
Read moreSecuring a win for collegiate free press, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that a case involving the University of California, San Diego’s satirical student newspaper The Koala, free speech and student organization funding should not have been dismissed.
Read moreA longtime employee of the University of California at Santa Barbara claims in Superior Court that, when she complained of gross sexual harassment from a relatively new hire, the Title IX office put her off for three weeks, saying it was “too busy and understaffed.”
Read moreEli Lilly & Co. sued the University of California, San Diego, in Superior Court, claiming that UCSD diverted nearly $20 million of the $38 million that it provided for a clinical study of solanezumab, an Alzheimer’s drug.
Read moreThe University of California, Los Angeles, quarantined more than 120 students and staff Thursday who have contracted measles or may have been exposed to it amid fears of a continuing outbreak in LA County.
Read moreUniversity of California research and technical employees got a boost from U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday when he joined them at a rally in Los Angeles over stalled contract negotiations as union members call for better wages and a reduction in outsourcing.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The University of California, Berkeley, on Monday agreed to alter its events policy to settle a
Read moreThe University of California at Davis will pay $14 million toward cleaning up the Laboratory for Energy-related Health Research/Old Campus Landfill Superfund site in Davis, in an agreement with the U.S. EPA and California.
Read moreAt a cozy watering hole in downtown Oakland, California, budding scientists wield an unconventional weapon to help fight misconceptions about their field of knowledge. Their battleground is a bar. Their ammunition: beer.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday dismissed nearly all claims in a $23 million lawsuit over violent protests that led to the cancellation of a speech by conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California Berkeley in 2017.
Read moreA California appeals court found it improper Wednesday that a judge decertified a class of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory retirees who claim the Regents of the University of California cheated them of university-sponsored group health insurance.
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