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UC Regents Meet In San Francisco To Discuss Fee Increase
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – The University of California Regents began their three-day meeting Tuesday and are expected to focus on a proposed 8% fee increase. This will be the first time in a decade, that...
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Bill In Works To Cap UC Administrators’ Pensions
SAN JOSE (KCBS) – The threat of a lawsuit from some of the University of California’s highest paid executives over a boost to their already generous pensions is being met with legislation. Thirty-six...
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Threatened Suit Against UC Behind Bill To Cap Public Employee Pensions
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – The pensions of the state’s highest paid public employees have become the latest target of Sacramento politicians struggling to close a budget deficit now estimated at more than...
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UC Prepares Plans For Big Loss In State Funding
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — University of California officials are preparing plans to deal with state budget cuts that could lead to more tuition increases and less student access. At Wednesday’s UC...
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UC President Seeking Another Tuition Hike
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— University of California President Mark Yudof is looking for approval on a 9.6 percent tuition increase to offset another $150 million in state education cuts. Students will be...
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Head Of UC Regents Vows Not To Hike Tuition Again
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – The rebellion against tuition and fee hikes brewing on the board that oversees the University of California starts at the top. UC Regents chair Sherry Lansing voted in favor of...
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Police Break Up ‘Occupy Cal’ Encampment At UC Berkeley
BERKELEY (CBS / AP) — Police moved in to break up a demonstration at the University of California at Berkeley that started when anti-Wall Street protesters tried to establish an encampment on campus....
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‘Occupy Cal’ Protesters Call For Strike; Police Defend Actions
BERKELEY (CBS SF) – University of California at Berkeley police on Thursday defended their actions during demonstrations on campus the day before when the newly formed “Occupy Cal” movement drew...
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Occupy SF Protesters Arrested After Swarming Downtown Bank Lobby
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Police arrested dozens of Occupy SF protesters who stormed a Bank of America branch on California Street in San Francisco during a march Wednesday afternoon, and refused to...
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UC Davis Strike Planned To Coincide With Regents Meeting
DAVIS (KCBS) – Occupy UC Davis activists are planning a campus-wide general strike for Monday, set to coincide with a UC Regents meeting that was rescheduled for the same day. Organizers said the...
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UC Students Protest Police Actions, Soaring Tuition As Regents Meet
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A University of California Board of Regents meeting held via teleconference at four UC campuses wrapped up Monday afternoon after being briefly interrupted by protesters who...
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UC Regents Ask State Legislature For Over $400 Million Next Fiscal Year
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— The University of California Board of Regents is asking the state legislature for an additional $411 million in funds for the next fiscal year. After years of tuition hikes and...
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Mom Sues Over Son’s Overdose At UC Berkeley Co-Op
BERKELEY (CBS / AP) — The mother of a University of California, Berkeley student who suffered severe brain damage after a drug overdose on campus is suing the UC regents. Madelyn Bennett said they knew...
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3 Arrested During Protest At UC Regents Meeting In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Three people were arrested at a University of California Regents meeting Thursday after a demonstration denouncing a possible state funding deal that protesters said would raise...
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Protesters Disrupt UC Regents Meeting In Sacramento
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) – Protesters disrupted a University of California board meeting where officials are discussing a tuition increase to help close its budget shortfall Wednesday. Members of the UC...
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No Tuition Hike For UC Students
BERKELEY (AP) — The president of the University of California will not request a hike in tuition. UC Regents had been expected to raise tuition next month. Regents for the 10-campus university system...
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UC Tuition Freeze Hinges On Brown’s California Tax Initiative
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - The University of California Regents on Wednesday voted to endorse the governor’s tax plan, and contingent on its passing, to freeze next year’s undergraduate tuition costs, as...
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UC Berkeley Students Seek Tuition Cuts After Prop. 30 Passes
BERKELEY (KCBS) — Hundreds of students at UC Berkeley walked out of class and marched in the rain Thursday, demanding that their tuition go down following the passage of Proposition 30. Voters approved...
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Gov. Brown Urges UC To Rethink Education, Contain Costs
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown is calling on the University of California to contain costs and rethink how it does business even though voters approved new taxes to fund schools and...
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Gov. Brown Opposes Raise For New UC Berkeley Chancellor
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) – Gov. Jerry Brown and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom voted Tuesday against giving the new chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley a $50,000 pay raise over what his...
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