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The model approved allows the system to increase undergraduate tuition and systemwide fees by as much as 5% annually, depending on inflation, and locks in that rate for students enrolling that year for up to six years.

M. Theo Kearney died a bachelor with no heirs, and left his estate to the University of California.

Kearney helped jumpstart Fresno's development with the agricultural colony system. He was a raisin industry pioneer and left his considerable estate, including mansion and private park to the University of California.

Postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers on Tuesday reached a tentative labor agreement with the University of California. But they'll remain on strike in solidarity with thousands of graduate student workers at all 10 of the university system's campuses.

About 48,000 union-backed employees of the University of California walked off the job and onto the picket line Monday morning. At UC Merced, the system’s newest campus, employees are calling on the UC Regents to raise wages so they can afford housing.

The strike by researchers, postdoctoral scholars, teaching assistants and others threatens to disrupt classroom instruction across the statewide university system. Workers say that without significant pay raises, they can’t afford living in cities with soaring housing costs.

Ph.D. candidate Jessica Wilson’s three-minute speech about her CBD research beat out the competition at UC Merced’s Grad Slam. Next month she will compete against the winners at other UC campuses.

Roughly 360,000 UC and Cal State students may soon receive about $1,000 to $3,000 to fund their educations this fall as part of California’s effort to make college debt-free. Another form of aid to help more community college students has a less clear path.

The goals are to bolster climate research while building connections between academia and the industry.

The unseasonably warm and dry fall we are experiencing in the San Joaquin Valley is a reminder of the changing climate, here and around the world. In the…