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UC Berkeley Academic Senate discusses standardized testing, campus accessibility

Members of the UC Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate discussed new frameworks to promote accessibility of campus resources, the role of standardized testing in admissions processes and students’ ... read more

UC grad schools stand out in 2019 US News rankings

When last ranked in 2018, UC also had several No. 1-ranked graduate programs (some of which are not reviewed annually), including: chemistry (UC Berkeley), clinical ... salaries for graduates and ... read more

Occupy Cal and the Free Speech Movement

The demands of the FSM were quite easily met, and understandably won the support of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate ... UC Berkeley were somehow the same. The FSM swept away obstacles to ... read more

UC Regents recap – Jan. 15-16

On Tuesday, Student Regent Devon Graves said the goal of the committee is to produce a report after two years that provides an overview of basic needs at UC campuses and discusses ways ... chair of ... read more

UC Santa Barbara to Host National Conference on the SAT and the Future of Standardized Testing

The conference is sponsored by the UCSB Academic Senate's Center for Faculty Outreach and its Committee on Admissions and Enrollment, and by the Chancellor's Outreach Advisory Board. New research on ... read more

Elizabeth Deakin takes over as chair of Berkeley division of Academic Senate

Elizabeth Deakin ... Papadopoulos, a UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering and the vice chair of the Academic Senate, emphasized the importance of the chair’s role in advising Chancellor ... read more

Faculty proposal of comprehensive admissions debated

Currently, each campus admits 50 to 75 percent of its undergraduate applicants solely based on academic criteria – grades, standardized test scores and classes ... Professor Calvin Moore, chair of the ... read more

At Stanford 2016: The Year in Review

together with UC Berkeley and UCSF. Stephen Quake, professor of bioengineering and of applied physics, will co-lead the Biohub. An accomplished academic leader and longtime member of the Stanford ... read more

Student with 3.85 GPA gets rejection letters from UCs

And these were not even the highest tier of UCs, not Berkeley ... to living on campus, to be in a real college.... Sentiments aside, but shouldn't there some sort of mechanism by which schools in UC ... read more

What About Legacy Mismatches?

From an old Dish reader: It is great to see you in action at The Atlantic curating the ... me feel bad for my “lacking” academic performance in comparison to those who benefited from all kinds of ... read more

How poor sleep can ruin your social life

To test whether ... Credit: UC Berkeley Finally, researchers looked at whether just one night of good or bad sleep could influence one’s sense of loneliness the next day. Each person’s state of ... read more

UC to redirect some National Merit Scholarship funding

In particular, the chancellors agreed with the Academic Council's concern that using the PSAT exam alone to eliminate the vast majority of test takers from National Merit Scholarship consideration is ... read more