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March 21, 2026 8:06 p.m.
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 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’s March meeting.
By Josephine Murphy
Higher Education
March 20, 2026 11:20 p.m.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.
By Maggie Konecky
Academics
March 20, 2026 6:54 p.m.United Auto Workers units finalize agreements with UC, avoid strike
Three United Auto Workers units ratified contracts with the UC on Friday, averting a strike after months of bargaining.
The three units – UAW Local 4811’s academic student employees unit, Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW and Student Services and Advising Professionals-UAW – represent more than 40,000 UC academic and research employees, including teaching assistants.
By Delilah Brumer
National
March 19, 2026 12:42 p.m.UC investment officer discusses assets, what constitutes war-related investments
Pro-Palestine students and advocates have called on the UC to disclose and divest from companies allegedly associated with the Israeli military.
But at a Tuesday UC Board of Regents meeting, the UC’s Chief Investment Officer said he believes it is difficult to consider what constitutes supporting war – whether directly or tangentially – when it comes to the University’s investments, especially with regard to U.S.
By Josephine Murphy
News
March 18, 2026 4:01 p.m.UC Regents committee recommends $351 million for UCLA student housing project
This post was updated March 19 at 1:15 p.m.
The UC Board of Regents’s Finance and Capital Strategies Committee recommended a budget of $351 million to build new UCLA student housing on Levering Ave.
By Maggie Konecky
Los Angeles
March 18, 2026 2:25 p.m.UC approves $298.2 million budget to convert LA building into UCLA Health complex
The UC Board of Regents approved a $298.2 million budget Wednesday to convert a Los Angeles building into a UCLA Health complex.
The project will convert an office building in El Segundo into UCLA Health South Bay, which will house a Sports Medicine Institute and create community fill and specialty pharmacies.
By Josephine Murphy
Academics
March 13, 2026 10:30 p.m.UC reaches tentative agreements with 3 United Auto Workers units
The UC reached tentative agreements with three United Auto Workers units that had threatened to strike, the units announced Friday.
The tentative agreement, if approved, will become the first contracts for Student Services and Advising Professionals-UAW and Research and Public Service Professionals-UAW, which were officially recognized by the University in April and September, respectively.
By Josephine Murphy
Campus
March 12, 2026 6:06 p.m.UC UAW units may strike ‘as soon as next week’ if University doesn’t meet demands
Union members representing UC academic and research employees said at a demonstration Thursday that they plan to strike as soon as next week if the University does not meet their contract demands.
By Josephine Murphy and Natalia Mochernak
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