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Minority students in California are threatening to sue the University of California system over its requirement that students submit an SAT score as part of the admissions process.

University of California (UC) President Janet Napolitano announced her resignation on Wednesday. During her rocky tenure over the UC system, Napolitano championed sanctuary campuses and was accused of interfering in a state investigation into the system’s budget.

A teaching assistant at UC Santa Barbara has come under fire this summer over posts she has made on social media about transgender people. In one post, she said “There is no such thing as actually being transgender (a male woman or a female man). Believing so is a delusion. I will not validate such a decision by validating terms like ‘trans people.’ Interpret that as you will.”

UC Santa Cruz has announced that it will remove historic bells from the “Spanish Missions” after members of the community called them offensive.

University of California President Janet Napolitano published a statement on Thursday in response to President Trump’s executive order on campus free speech, calling itself “ground zero for robust exchanges of ideas.”

Applicants for teaching positions at the University of California’s many campuses now have to prove their commitment to the institution’s various “diversity” initiatives.

The University of California San Francisco has announced that it is ramping up campus safety precautions — not be increasing police patrols or by ensuring free speech on campus — but by providing students and staff with “preferred gender pronoun” stickers to add to their ID badges.

Texans reelected Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), handing a loss to Democrat Beto O’Rourke, but it wasn’t because the leftist candidate lacked funding.

A UC Davis student spent $12,000 on legal fees defending himself against a false allegation in early 2018.

“Because the services required by this bill are widely available off-campus, this bill is not necessary,” Brown said.

TEL AVIV – Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of California, Davis, on Friday admitted that it did not believe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be resolved “so long as the state of Israel exists.”

TEL AVIV – A University of California student workers’ union demanded as part of a renewed contract that UC administrators divest from companies that profit from “the oppression of Palestinians.”

Students at the University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) said that President Trump should not receive a Nobel Peace Prize, but could not explain why former President Barack Obama received the same honor in 2009.

Students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, (UCSB) had some strong opinions about President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy troops to the U.S.-Mexico border but seemed shocked when they learned former President Barack Obama did the same thing.

The student government at the University of California, Merced, is trying to kill funding for the school’s College Republicans chapter.

The California legislature is trying for the seventh time in a row to revive an independent higher education accountability agency defunded by Gov. Jerry Brown’s his first line-item-veto in 2010.

The University of California has published a list of unacceptable “microaggressions” on its official website, which includes offensive statements such as “America is the land of opportunity.”

The California State Senate will vote on a bill that would mandate all University of California and California State University campus health centers to stock drugs for medication abortion.

Hundreds of UC Berkeley graduate students are marching in opposition to the higher taxes they believe they will have to pay under the Republican House-sponsored tax reform bill.

University of California President Janet Napolitano was given no real punishment for behavior that would have seen a CEO in the private sector fired for mismanagement and possibly prosecuted for obstruction.

A new study has found that 70 percent of ninth graders in California will never achieve a bachelor’s degree, though only 10 percent of them expect to not graduate from a four-year college.

Two high-level University of California administrators resigned this week after they were allegedly caught interfering with a state auditor’s survey, according to a report from the Daily Californian.

The University of California has sued the Trump administration for its decision to rescind the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.

Nicholas Dirks, the University of California (UC) Berkeley chancellor who stepped down this summer after numerous scandals, will be paid $434,000 to take a one-year paid vacation.

The University of California, which dodged funding its public pension contributions for two decades, is again dodging paying cash by borrowing the money to make pension payments.

Every now and then I write a piece that makes the Greenies’ heads explode. This was one of them – ‘Global Warming’ Is A Myth Say 58 Scientific Papers In 2017 – and I can quite understand why.

The University of California Regents hosted 59 friends for a $258-per-plate dinner at the luxurious San Francisco Palace Hotel the night after they promised to implement greater control over tuition increases.

California’s increased crackdown on free speech on several of its college campuses has pushed several Republicans, and even some Democrats, to push back.

University of California President Janet Napolitano was skewered Tuesday in front of a California legislature oversight committee focusing on allegations her office plotted against a state audit, interfered with data collection, and waged a smear campaign to prevent revelations of hidden cash.

IT workers at the University of California intend to file a lawsuit challenging their dismissal after they were replaced by offshore workers, arguing that those sacked from the UC San Francisco campus were discriminated against based on age and national origin.

The Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation have filed a lawsuit against members of the University of California system for their role in restricting an upcoming speaking event featuring Ann Coulter.

The University of California has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit involving former UC Berkeley law school dean Sujit Choudhry and assistant Tyann Sorrell for a staggering $1.7 million, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

A San Francisco law student told The Algemeiner he was shocked this week to find the mezuzah on the doorpost of his dorm room partially burned.

Wind turbines are killing off an endangered species of bat at a much faster pace than expected, according to a study from the University of California.

Islamic authorities managing the Temple Mount attempted to have a veteran Israeli archaeologist ejected from the Jerusalem flashpoint holy site on Sunday for using the term “Temple Mount” in a lecture to American students.

President-elect Donald Trump, in a statement that he isn’t planning to budge on the anti-China trade rhetoric that he voiced on the campaign trail, has chosen the author of the book and movie Death by China to head the new White House National Trade Council.