University of California, Davis

By Chris The UC Regents voted for a 32% fee hike recently, which led to a large student protest Thursday night. Over 50 students were arrested for trespassing in Mrak Hall, the UC Davis administration building. These protests will not stop until the state holds up its end of the bargain with the Unive...

By afurillo@sacbee.com (Andy Furillo) In his declaration, Fagel said that according to attorneys who represented the University of California Board of Regents, the settlement is the largest the university system has ever paid to settle a medical malpractice claim. The Sacramento attorney who represented the university,...

By mlundstrom@sacbee.com (Marjie Lundstrom) Kristen Rogers, an assistant professor in the pediatrics department, filed suit Monday in Alameda County against the University of California Regents and Marilyn Peterson, longtime director of the UC Davis CAARE Diagnostic and Treatment Center.

Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, who saw an opportunity to call attention to his bill pushing for more legislative control over the University of California. Yee says his bipartisan bill is needed "to hold UC Regents accountable to the people of ...

UC President Mark Yudof (center) and outgoing UC Regents Chairman Richard Blum introduce Linda Katehi (far left) as UC Davis chancellor and Susan Desmond-Hellmann as UC San Francisco chancelllor. Both will assume their posts in August.

The plan to curtail undergraduate enrollment will reduce enrollment of new California resident freshmen by 2,300 students systemwide for the 2009-10 academic year, from a total of around 37,600 new freshmen in 2008-09 to around 35,300 for 2009-10. (Under the plan, UC Davis will admit a...

As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, Summers was initially invited to be a speaker at an upcoming dinner event of the University of California Regents, but many faculty members objected to his selection and the offer to Summers was subsequently rescinded: