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By Vivian Ho For almost a month, he was a mystery. A man in tattered clothing arrested for stealing frozen pizzas and candy bars at a Daly City grocery store. A man who didn’t utter a single word as he was bounced from jail to mental wards while investigators struggled to identify him. On Friday, he […]
By Nanette Asimov When the University of California dangled a $30,000 incentive in front of thousands of professors in 2010, inviting them to create UC-worthy online courses, just 70 responded, and only a few classes materialized. Faculty members at California State University were similarly skeptical and warned of “Walmartization” last year as trustees charged each campus $50,000 to help […]
By Erin Allday UC San Francisco has joined the growing ranks of academic institutions that are offering most, if not all, of their research free to the public, by requiring that all published scientific studies be added by their authors to a university repository accessible to everyone. The policy change at UCSF, which was announced last month, is […]
By Nanette Asimov California’s public universities aren’t the most expensive in the country to attend — some are even among the cheapest — but they do have the fastest-rising tuition, according to a U.S. Department of Education ranking of college costs released Tuesday. Seven University of California campuses and three California State University campuses are among the top 5 […]
BERKELEY — Alameda County prosecutors have decided not to file charges against two women arrested on suspicion of trespassing during the Occupy the Farm protest on UC Berkeley-owned land in Albany, officials said Tuesday. Campus police officers arrested nine protesters May 14 on the university’s 10-acre Gill Tract near Marin and San Pablo avenues after a three-week standoff. Last week, […]
By Nanette Asimov It sounds like an obesity epidemic in higher education: program bloat. But rather than some sort of elephantine curriculum, the phrase refers to the hundreds of degree programs at California’s public universities with fewer than 10 graduates in a given year — at a time when many students are turned away from more popular programs because […]
By Wyatt Buchanan SACRAMENTO — Students in California’s public colleges and universities, who have seen their tuition and fees rise continuously, could see some relief as early as this fall under bills passed in each house of the Legislature on Wednesday. Lawmakers in the Assembly and Senate approved separate measures that would provide a generous tuition break for middle-class students […]
By Carolyn Lochhead WASHINGTON — The Senate is poised to take up a new farm bill in the coming weeks that will set the nation’s food policy for the next five years and cost nearly $1 trillion over a decade. But California, the nation’s largest farm producer and a strong voice in environmental and health policy, is destined […]
By Tom Stienestra At a campsite last month, I saw a campfire ring where a picnic table had been uprooted, turned on its side and set in the pit, and then partially burned as if it were firewood. As spring takes hold, the “Idiot Alert” has been sounded at parks, trails and lakes as more […]
By Wyatt Buchanan SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown proposed significant cuts to state courts and state worker pay — including reducing state employees’ work week to four days — to help close a $15.7 billion gap between revenue and expenses for California’s fiscal year that begins July 1. In announcing his revised budget proposal, which he called both “difficult” […]
By Nanette Asimov ALBANY — Occupy the Farm protesters agreed Saturday to end their three-week encampment on UC Berkeley property in Albany, but rebuffed an invitation from the university to discuss how area can be used for both urban farming and for research. Instead, the several dozen protesters set up ladders to scale the fence UC had erected around […]
By Nanette Asimov California State University is withholding financial aid for about 20,000 needy graduate students — money that pays their tuition — pending a decision that could permanently end the cash grants, The Chronicle has learned. Graduate students across the 23-campus system began receiving financial aid notices this week and were astonished to see that the state university grant […]
By Bob Egelko The FBI and the University of California have settled a lawsuit over their 2008 raid on a left-wing Berkeley group by agreeing to pay $100,000 and destroy computer files seized in a search for alleged threats by animal-rights advocates. UC police, federal agents and other officers entered the Long Haul Inc. office on 3124 Shattuck Ave. […]
By Carolyn Said UC Berkeley freshman Kak Wong pecked away at a laptop at a campus polling station outside Dwinelle Hall on Wednesday, casting his votes for student leaders and ballot initiatives on the second day of a three-day student government election. He was perplexed to hear afterward that one of the ballot initiatives, which would charge each student […]
