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The Fiat Lux Remix contest invited students, faculty and staff members to revisit images of UC campuses commissioned in the mid-1960s by then-President Clark Kerr and taken by legendary photographer Ansel Adams – and published in the book Fiat Lux – and give them their own spin.
Tag: University of California
Chancellors see Berkeley’s future through students’ eyes
May 3, 2013:
Dirks, who takes over as Berkeley’s chancellor on June 1, and Robert Birgeneau, who has held that position for nine years, took a lunch meeting in a Durant Hall conference room with the winners of the campus’s Fiat Lux Remix contest.
Live webcast of UC global food forum set for April 9
April 2, 2013:
UC will convene some of the world’s leading experts — farmers, researchers, policymakers, economists, environmentalists and geopolitical experts — at a daylong forum focused on addressing how to sustainably feed 8 billion people by 2025.
March ‘Our University’: Videos on UC and the California dream
March 21, 2013:
Learn about a video series on UC people reinventing the California Dream, the Keck Observatory at 20 and UC’s forum on the challenge of feeding the world — all in the March issue of “Our University” faculty-staff newsletter.
‘Our University’: UC’s health-benefit plans, cancer research
February 26, 2013:
Learn about 2014 UC medical benefits, supporting UC cancer research via your state tax return, and the role of staff advisers to the regents — all in the February issue of ‘Our University,’ the systemwide employee newsletter.
UC-wide staff salary hikes ruled out for 2012-13
February 21, 2013:
In a letter to the university community, UC President Mark Yudof says he remains “committed to implementing a systemwide salary program for staff as soon as the UC budget can support one.”
President Yudof to end his tenure in August
January 18, 2013:
Mark Yudof will step down as president of the University of California effective Aug. 31. He announced his decision in a Jan. 18 statement. Chancellor Birgeneau issues a statement praising his leadership.
Online ed aims to meet undergrads’ needs
January 17, 2013:
At the UC Board of Regents Jan. 16 meeting, President Yudof described efforts to build a larger catalog of online courses, which could make up as much as 11 percent of the undergraduate curriculum over the next five years. This would allow incoming freshmen to fulfill a portion of their lower-division coursework online, he said.
UC sustainability savings add up: $91M and counting
January 16, 2013:
The University of California has saved $91 million in energy costs since 2004, and it expects even greater dividends ahead as it ramps up its sustainability practices.
An overview of UC’s online-education project
January 15, 2013:
UC Office of the President offers an overview of the UC system’s online-education efforts to date. The initiative will be the subject of a presentation — by systemwide provost Aimée Dorr — at the Wednesday, Jan. 16 meeting of the UC Board of Regents.
Yudof, in web chat, answers questions on UC’s financial future
November 5, 2012:
UC President Mark Yudof held a web chat with university faculty and staff on Nov. 2 to discuss UC’s financial future, the impact of Proposition 30 and other issues.
‘Our University’: Deficit strategies, climate survey, policing and more
October 9, 2012:
UC’s “Our University” newsletter reports on potential deficit strategies, a systemwide campus-climate survey in progress and a final report on protests and policing. All of that, and more, appear in the September 2012 edition.
UC newsletter: State tax measure, UCRP, campus-climate report
July 26, 2012:
The July issue of “Our University,” UC’s newsletter for faculty and staff, features what’s at stake for the university in the November 2012 election, upcoming increases in UCRP contributions, campus climate for students of Jewish, Muslim and Arab students — and more.
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Triumph and turmoil: Clark Kerr’s life and times examined
July 25, 2012:
Clark Kerr served as UC Berkeley chancellor, UC president and higher-education leader during times of immense change and upheaval in the 1950s and ’60s. His long-time friend David Gardner, UC president emeritus, examines Kerr’s private life and public leadership in a new paper from the Center for Studies in Higher Education.
As May budget revise approaches, Yudof urges UC community to contact Sacramento
May 9, 2012:
Governor Brown will release his revised state budget on Monday, May 14. “At this critical time in California’s budget process, the Governor and legislative leaders need to hear from UC supporters that the University of California has been cut enough,” President Mark Yudof says in an online message.
UC president to hold web chat Friday
February 28, 2012:
Faculty and staff are invited to participate in web chat with President Mark Yudof, set for noon to 1 p.m., Friday, March 2. Topics to be covered include state funding for UC, the Working Smarter Initiative and recent campus protests.
‘Our University’ looks at stress, online initiative, tobacco ban
January 26, 2012:
UC’s plan to ban tobacco on system campuses, the status of the UC Online Initiative, and tips for reducing stress are some of the issues covered in the January issue of “Our University,” the systemwide faculty-staff newsletter.
UC’s green investments pay off
January 20, 2012:
The University of California is saving $32 million a year on energy and remains the higher-education leader in adopting green-building standards. Those achievements and others are outlined in the “2011 UC Annual Report on Sustainable Practices.”
California state shortfall triggers $100 million cut for UC
December 13, 2011:
Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced a $100 million reduction in funding for the University of California — part of a package of mid-year cuts triggered by a state-revenue shortfall exceeding $2 billion. U
UC generates $46.3 billion in economic activity for state, study says
September 14, 2011:
The University of California is a key economic catalyst for the state, annually generating more than $46 billion to economic activity for California, according to an independent economic impact report released Sept. 14.
‘Our University’: July issue features UC-wide cost-saving initiative, workplace-stress resources
July 20, 2011:
The newest issue of ‘Our University,’ the UC newsletter for faculty and staff, features the systemwide Working Smarter Initiative, which has produced $157 million in cost savings and revenue generation in its first year.
Chancellor responds to Gov. Brown’s budget veto
June 16, 2011:
In a letter to the campus community, Chancellor Birgeneau praises Gov. Brown’s June 16 veto of a budget proposal that would have increased the cut to UC by $150 million, to $650 million for the coming fiscal year.
Governor vetoes state spending plan
June 16, 2011:
California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a state spending plan that would have deepened the cut in financial support for UC by another $150 million for the coming fiscal year. Brown said the proposal sent to him by the Legislature was not a “balanced solution” for ending California’s long-term fiscal crisis.
Yudof, Gould respond to legislators’ budget plan
June 16, 2011:
The new budget proposal approved by the state legislature “should be unacceptable to all Californians,” UC President Mark Yudof and Board of Regents Chair Russell Gould say in a joint statement issued June 15. Its additional $150 million in cuts for UC would likely lead to a “double-digit tuition increase on top of the 8 percent hike already approved for next year,” they say.
UC Commission on the Future releases final report
December 6, 2010:
The final recommendations of the UC Commission on the Future were unveiled Monday, Dec. 6. The panel addressed five broad areas of concern: teaching and curriculum, undergraduate enrollment and access, research and graduate education, fiscal discipline and administrative reform, and public education and advocacy.
UC regents increase fees, financial aid
November 18, 2010:
Faced with a $1 billion budget gap, UC Regents today (Nov. 18) approved an 8 percent fee increase for 2011-12 and expanded financial aid for low- and middle-income California students.
