For months, California’s public higher education institutions have braced for deep state funding cuts, fearing they would lead to reductions in student services, course offerings and even enrollment. In Gov. Gavin Newsom’s January budget proposal, the University of California and […]
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James B. Milliken, the chancellor of the University of Texas who has led among the nation’s largest higher education systems and navigated GOP politics, has been named the next president of the University of California. His appointment, announced Friday afternoon
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Dozens of demonstrators who took part in last spring’s pro-Palestinian protests at UCLA — including the encampment that came under attack — are suing the university and law enforcement agencies, alleging they were unlawfully arrested, their civil rights were violated,
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University of California leaders said Wednesday they are eliminating a years-old practice of requiring faculty job applicants to submit “diversity statements,” a move that comes after the Trump administration threatened to revoke federal funding from schools and universities that maintain
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Facing unprecedented threats by the Trump administration to slash medical and science research funding key to its mission as the nation’s premier public university system, the University of California announced on Wednesday a systemwide hiring freeze to stave off layoffs
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For more than seven months, UCLA has battled in federal court against allegations by Jewish students and a faculty member that the university enabled antisemitic actions during a pro-Palestinian campus encampment last spring. In court filings, lawyers on both sides
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The Department of Education said Friday that it had launched investigations into alleged race-based discrimination at three California universities and 49 other colleges nationwide as the Trump administration pushes schools to eliminate campus diversity, equity and inclusion programs that it
California joined seven Democrat-led states that sued the Trump administration Thursday, seeking to halt hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to teacher training programs designed to increase instructors in direly needed STEM fields as well as educate students who
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has launched a civil rights investigation into allegations of antisemitism at the University of California, saying its attorneys believe there is a “potential pattern” of discrimination against Jewish employees at the
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Inglewood police said Saturday they are searching for two suspects in the shooting death of a man who intervened in an attempted catalytic converter theft last week. Early Tuesday morning, police said, the victim tried to stop two men from
