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- UC to offer admission to all eligible undergraduates for 2008-09
The University of California will continue to offer admission in fall 2008 to all undergraduate applicants who meet its eligibility requirements, despite the fact that the governors budget proposes to cut state funding for the university in 2008-09, UC officials announced last week. Published: 05 March - Keeping the fruits of knowledge within reach
With subscription costs for traditional academic journals on the rise, the newly launched Berkeley Research Impact Initiative offers subsidies to campus scholars wishing to take the open-access publishing route, and hope for a new model of sustainability. Published: 27 February - PACE reports says state's schools holding steady or improving
A new report from Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) says California's public school students lag behind much of the nation in most areas, but have managed to hold steady or improve across subjects and grade levels, with graduation rates also eking upward in era of lagging resources, a growing population and increasing diversity. Published: 27 February - New digital projects teach English in India, monitor air pollution
An online mystery game in which student sleuths will monitor air pollution in South Central Los Angeles and in Cairo, Egypt, and a project using cell phones to teach English to children in India have won funding for two University of California, Berkeley, professors. Published: 25 February - Chancellor Birgeneau on keeping public universities affordable: We have to start now
Even before Harvard announced plans to extend financial aid to students from families with incomes up to $180,000, Chancellor Birgeneau was addressing the challenge of ensuring that qualified low- and middle-income students could afford to attend UC Berkeley. In this interview with the Berkeleyan, he talks about what he's learned and what needs to be done. Published: 30 January - Albert Bowker, innovative chancellor, dies at age 88
Albert Bowker, a former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, an expert is statistics and an innovative administrator during his decades-long career in higher education across the country, died Sunday in a retirement home in Portola Valley, Calif. He was 88 and had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. Published: 22 January - UC Berkeley: Craigslist to establish first endowed faculty chair in new media
UC Berkeley announced plans on Jan. 17 to establish the first endowed faculty chair at the Berkeley Center for New Media with a donation of $1.6 million from craigslist, one of the most popular Web sites in the world. The donation, which will support research, symposia and lectures, will be matched with $1.5 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for a total of $3.1 million. Published: 17 January - Cal Teach celebrates $2.4 million grant to foster science and math teaching
Officials and students gathered at UC Berkeley Dec. 11 to celebrate a $2.4 million grant from the National Science & Math Initiative to the Cal Teach program, which promotes science and math teaching among Berkeley's science, math and engineering undergraduates. Published: 14 December - Students pursue program promoting science, math teaching
Science and math education in the United States may be viewed as flawed experiments lately, but some 200 University of California, Berkeley, students majoring in math, science and engineering may help fix that through a new program promoting teaching of these crucial subjects. Published: 25 October - On track and going strong
"This is the greatest investment I've ever made," says George A. Miller about the program he founded to help low-income, first-generation community-college transfer students make the adjustment to life at Berkeley. "And I was in investment banking for 35 years." Published: 17 October - A town hall meeting with UC's president
The power of 10 keeps the University resilient in the face of dark forces, Dynes tells faculty Published: 05 October - Laffaire Chemerinsky: One to remember?
The shortest-lived controversy in recent UC history is over - isn't it? Two Boalt Hall professors share their opinions on the Drake/Chemerinsky brouhaha at UC Irvine. Published: 19 September -
Hewlett Foundation gift of $113 million is largest private gift in campus history
UC Berkeley today received the largest private gift in its history, $113 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This gift represents a turning point in the financing of public higher education, providing endowment support that will help to close the funding gap between the nation's preeminent public university and its elite private peers, according to UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau.
(10 September )New interdisciplinary 'Global Poverty & Practice' minor is launched
UC Berkeley's Blum Center for Developing Economies has announced the creation of a new undergraduate program that, beginning this fall, will seek to motivate and prepare students to become active in alleviating poverty worldwide. The "Global Poverty & Practice" minor will be housed in the International and Area Studies Teaching Program.
(27 August)Study finds early difficulty for community college students
A new report by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) finds that six in 10 students who enter the California community college system as freshmen with high school diplomas and aspirations to transfer to four-year institutions drop out or lower their academic sights after just one semester. The report recommends increasing support for these students. Published: 20 August - Chancellor leads effort to back federal math education bill
University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, who has led an effort by leaders of some of the nation's premiere colleges and universities to back a federal bill that would strengthen K-12 math and science education, applauded today the recent passage of the bill and expressed his optimism that it will be signed into law. Published: 03 August - Experts on Supreme Court rulings
U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding school integration and the death penalty. Published: 28 June
