Tuesday, August 11

In the news:

UC Board of Regents voices support for Senate Bill 985

The UC Board of Regents voiced support for a state bill that would put a $23 billion research bond on the November 2026 ballot at its Wednesday meeting. Read more...

Photo: UC President James Milliken at a UC Board of Regents meeting. The board voiced support for a state bill that would put a $23 billion research bond on the November 2026 ballot at its Wednesday meeting. (Maggie Konecky/Daily Bruin senior staff)


UC investment assets dip, regents discuss at bimonthly meeting

The UC’s investments portfolio dipped last quarter, according to a report discussed at a UC Board of Regents meeting which protesters disrupted Tuesday. The board met at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center on Tuesday and Wednesday for its bimonthly meeting. Read more...

Photo: UC Board of Regents members sit during its May meeting. The UC’s investments portfolio dipped last quarter, according to a report discussed at a UC Board of Regents meeting which protesters disrupted Tuesday. (Elle Smith/Daily Bruin staff)


Protesting doctors, nurses allege dangerous overcrowding at UCLA hospital

This post was updated May 7 at 9:12 p.m. About 60 healthcare professionals gathered at Luskin Turnaround on Wednesday morning to protest patient overcrowding at UCLA’s on-campus hospital.  Members of the California Nurses Association, Committee of Interns and Residents and University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America 9119 – which represents healthcare, research and technical professionals – gave speeches calling on the University to address alleged overcrowding issues in the emergency department at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Read more...

Photo: Dr. Hannah Spungen is pictured giving a speech as one of the many healthcare professionals who gathered at Luskin Turnaround on Wednesday morning to protest patient overcrowding at UCLA’s on-campus hospital. (Izzy Greig/Daily Bruin)


‘We are the institution’: Students push for more representation under ACA 18

UC students say they want a voice in University policies – and an amendment to the state constitution could be the way to get it. Assembly Constitutional Amendment 18 would require the UC Board of Regents to appoint one undergraduate student and one graduate student to serve two-year terms on the board, replacing the current policy that only allows one student regent and student regent-designate. Read more...

Photo: Assemblymember Jessica Caloza, who co-authored a bill pushing for a second student regent, sits with students. (Karla Cardenas-Felipe/Daily Bruin staff)


UC Health proposes $36.7 million budget to expand research, healthcare access

This post was updated May 6 at 1:07 a.m. UC Health leaders proposed a $36.7 million budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year to a UC Board of Regents committee meeting Tuesday. Read more...

Photo: UC Regent Jay Sures is pictured. UC Health leaders proposed a $36.7 million budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year to a UC Board of Regents committee meeting Tuesday. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)


UC Regents hear public comment on international students, union negotiations

This post was updated March 24 at 9:07 a.m. UC community members called on the University to support basic needs initiatives, repatriate Indigenous cultural items and restore funding for certain academic support programs at the UC Board of Regents’ March meeting. Read more...

Photo: UC President James Milliken and UC Board of Regents’s Chair Janet Reilly are pictured at UC San Francisco. UC community members called on the University to support basic needs initiatives, repatriate Indigenous cultural items and restore certain academic support programs at the UC Board of Regents’s March meeting (Maggie Konecky/Daily Bruin senior staff)


UC basic needs programs might be in danger. What now?

SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly half of all UC undergraduates and one-third of graduate students are currently facing food insecurity, according to data presented at a UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday. Read more...

Photo: Katherine Newman, the UC’s provost and executive vice president of academic affairs, is pictured at UC San Francisco. Nearly half of all UC undergraduates and one-third of graduate students are currently facing food insecurity, according to data presented at a UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday. (Maggie Konecky/Daily Bruin senior staff)



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