The University of California announced Tuesday that it will use 100 percent clean electricity by 2025. All 10 UC campuses and five medical centers have committed to using solely zero-carbon and renewably generated electricity within a decade, according to a CALPIRG Students press release. Read more...
Photo: All 10 UC campuses and five medical centers have committed to using solely zero-carbon and renewably generated electricity within a decade. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Sept. 12 at 12:49 p.m. California legislators passed a bill Aug. 28 that will require the state to generate 100 percent of its electricity from renewable and zero-carbon sources by 2045. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students campaigned for Senate Bill 100, a bill mandating California reach 100 percent renewable energy generation by 2045 authored by state senator Kevin de León. (Courtesy of CALPIRG Students)
An international ranking named UCLA the second-best public university in the United States on Tuesday. The 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities, which was published by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, also ranked UCLA 11th in the world out of 1000 universities, an increase from the 12th spot which UCLA had held since 2011. Read more...
Photo: UCLA was ranked the second-best public university in the United States by the Academic Ranking of World Universities on Tuesday. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The University of California’s largest employee union released a statement urging the Board of Regents to divest from businesses who work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or support implementing President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” and family separation policies. Read more...
Photo: Over 50,000 employees across the 10 University of California campuses went on strike for three days in May partly because of growing concerns about outsourcing at the UC. (Jenna Nicole Smith/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Aug. 15 at 5:53 p.m. University of California student workers held a rally Tuesday to put pressure on the University to accept their demands for their new contract. Read more...
Photo: Roughly 100 people rallied in and outside Murphy Hall on Tuesday to pressure administrative officials to accept student workers’ demands for their new contract. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
UCLA has only met 44 percent of its Centennial Campaign subtarget for student support despite eclipsing a $4.2 billion fundraising goal 18 months ahead of its original deadline. Read more...
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A UC San Diego graduate student was confirmed on July 18 as the 2018-2019 student regent-designate and the 2019-2020 student regent. Hayley Weddle, a doctoral student in education studies, said her experiences as an undergraduate studenstudet, staff member and now graduate student at the University of California have prepared her for the role of advising the regents on student perspectives. Read more...
Photo: Hayley Weddle, a doctoral student in education studies at UC San Diego, was confirmed on July 18 as the 2018-2019 student regent-designate and the 2019-2020 student regent. (Courtesy of John Weng)
