University of California

The nine UC campuses have admitted less out-of-state and international freshmen students for the fall academic semester.

Senate Bill 24 passed in 2019 allows for UC and Cal States to provide abortion pills starting Jan. 1.

The union for non-tenured UC faculty members reached a “historic” agreement with the University of California over contracts, averting a two-day walkout.

Two years of negotiations came to a triumphant end, as union faculty members in the University of California system reached a tentative agreement on non-tenured faculty contracts. The deal averted a 6,000-person walkout. Toni Guinyard reports for Today in LA on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021.

University of California regents on Thursday approved a multiyear plan to raise tuition and fees at one of the nation’s premier public university systems

All students, faculty and staff at the University of California will be required to be vaccinated in order to return to campus, the UC system announced in a new policy on Thursday.

Three top University of California campuses would lower their share of out-of-state and international students and the UC system would add 6,230 more local students next year under a new state budget plan that Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders unveiled Friday night

The University of California’s governing board has adopted a new policy that tightens the rules on affiliations with hospitals that impose religious restrictions on health care

University of California and California State University say they will require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty and staff returning on campus

The University of California is warning students and staff that a ransomware group might have stolen and published their personal data and that of hundreds of other schools, government agencies and companies nationwide

The prestigious University of California system has reached a proposed $73 million settlement with seven women who accused a former gynecologist of sexual abuse.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband, University of California Regent Richard Blum, has been named by the state auditor’s office as one of the regents involved in an admissions scandal where UC wrongly admitted dozens of students as favors to well-connected people.

A California state audit finds that the University of California wrongly admitted at least 64 wealthy, mostly white students over the past six years as “favors to donors, family, and friends.”

An obstetrician-gynecologist formerly employed by UCLA now faces a total of 20 felony counts charging him with sexually assaulting seven patients between 2011 and 2018, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. Dr. James Mason Heaps, 63, of Woodland Hills, initially faced charges involving two alleged victims. He pleaded not guilty to the newly filed charges Monday and…

University of California’s governing board voted Monday to unanimously support a measure to restore affirmative action programs and repeal a controversial statewide ban that has been blamed for a decline in diversity in the prestigious university system.

The University of California will drop the SAT and ACT tests as admission requirements through 2024 and eliminate them for California residents after that, a landmark decision by the prestigious university system.

The University of California is imposing a system-wide freeze on salaries of its non-unionized employees due to enormous financial losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

In a story May 18, 2020, about the University of California imposing salary freezes on some employees, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the UC is the country’s largest public higher education system

The president of the University of California wants to end the use of the SAT and ACT as admission requirements and replace them with a homegrown test, according to a plan released Monday.

Admissions requirements will be eased for students applying to the nine University of California campuses, which include UCLA and UC Irvine, during the coronavirus pandemic. The board voted Tuesday to suspend using SAT scores and letter grade requirements for A-G courses completed within the 2020 school year for all students who apply. “We want to help alleviate the tremendous disruption…