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Despite their skepticism a few months ago, members of the University of California Board of Regents have approved the budget and financing for UCLA's plan to build a 250-room, $162 million hotel and conference center – setting aside some concerns about the project's financial... + read more

California has slashed public university budgets, yet construction is booming at the University of California system, which has $8.9 billion in projects under way. + read more

California State University and University of California campuses are taking new steps to limit what students can do with their class notes: At least one CSU Chico student recently was reported to judicial affairs for selling notes to a website, while a newly updated UC Berkeley policy restricts... + read more

As a small cadre of University of California faculty prepares to deliver the first online classes in a systemwide experiment, the effort is stirring both excitement and controversy among instructors and administrators. The Online Instruction Pilot Project will launch roughly 20 to 25 online... + read more

A national report released this week by financial aid guru Mark Kantrowitz finds minority students are less likely to win private scholarships or receive merit-based institutional grants than Caucasian students – a pattern that also holds true in California. The analysis [PDF], based on... + read more

A state audit released last week says UCLA wrongfully designated $23 million in student fees to pay for two projects that were not included in the original fee referendum approved by student voters in 2000.  The finding was part of a 15-month audit [PDF] that concluded the... + read more

A judge has ruled that the University of California does not have to provide university-sponsored medical benefits to retirees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, whose health benefits were altered after the lab's management changed in 2007. Plaintiffs and Livermore Lab retirees... + read more