- ASUC grant applications now available online
- Welcome to ASUC Video
- CalLink debuts for ASUC student groups
- ASUC partners with Career Center for "Turn the Tables"
- Please take the Global Outreach Week survey
- ASUC Senate to hold special session on budget cuts this Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
- Day of Action
- Budget Cuts Faculty Panel
- Attend the Walkout Debrief student assembly on Sunday, September 27
- ASUC to host free campus-wide barbecue on October 9
- ASUC partners with Reval for Marrow Drive
- ASUC President meeting with Chancellor on Friday; give feedback on the agenda
- Check out CourseRank! New service from the ASUC to help students pick classes
- Read about Lower Sproul redevelopment as planning continues for a new Cal student center
- Acclaimed novelist Jonathan Safran Foer book signing at the Multicultural Center on November 6
- Delta Sigma Pi hosts “Take Me Out to the Board Room: The Business Behind Sports” on November 4
- Check out Fundraising Blog
- ASUC Auxiliary sponsors “The 2009 Canned Food Drive”
- The ASUC asks you to send in your story; how have budget cuts affected you?
- Summary of Public Higher Education Advocacy from the ASUC's Student Town Hall
- Learn how to use the ASUC's CalLink with new video tutorials
- Last day to apply for ASUC Grants for Fall 2009 is Friday, November 13
- ASUC-sponsored Fashion and Student Trends to put on fashion show on November 22
- Be one of 10,000 to write a letter inviting President Obama to Cal
- In observance of the 3-day strike, ASUC Senate meeting to change venue
- Sign the petition to delay the Regents' vote on a 32% fee increase!
- ASUC EAVP sponsors “Quakesafe” to educate Berkeley community on earthquake safety
- Third monthly Police Forum from EAVP office on December 1
- ASUC Office of the President releases fifth newsletter
- The ASUC endorses the Strike --- get a list of actions you can take here!
- ASUC's Student Advocate Office ready and able to help students involved in protest
- Keep Free Speech Alive. Join the Online Conversation. Be there on Dec. 2.
- UC Commission on the Future meeting on Dec. 3, students encouraged to attend
- Undergraduate/Graduate Mentorship Program to provide support and academic guidance
- Follow the footsteps of Ishaara and audition for America's Got Talent
- Join the ASUC in helping with Haiti Relief efforts
- calhaitiweek
- budgetprimer2-2
- The ASUC’s Student Advocate Office (SAO) is hiring new caseworkers for 2010
- Kappa Kappa Gamma’s “Jog for Jill” to raise awareness and donations for lung cancer research
- The South Asian Council and the ASUC present “MELA: The Colors of South Asia” on February 23
- The ASUC’s Office of External Affairs promotes dialogue with Student Police Forum on February 11
- The ASUC and Chancellor Birgeneau endorse student protest initiatives, sponsor student buses for March 1 rally in Sacramento
- Disability Awareness Week begins this Monday, March 8th, with a comedy event featuring Greg Walloch
- Oxford Seminars hosts free information session for students interested in working abroad
- Major Madness Week to help students explore major options and opportunities
- Malcolm X and Hip-Hop: What Malcolm's message means for students of color today
- Finance Officer Releases Spring Budgeting 2010-2011 Applications
Sign the petition to delay the Regents' vote on a 32% fee increase!
Please sign the petition to delay the regents' vote on the 32% fee increase: http://www.saveuc.org/petition_fees.php
Organized by the UC Berkeley's Faculty Org SAVE.
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Dear UC Board of Regents:
We the undersigned ask that you postpone your upcoming vote of November 19 on proposed fee hikes for UC graduate and undergraduate students.
The proposed increase of 32% for undergraduates, coming on top of previous hikes, would mean a total increase of 40% within the past 18 months. This precipitous increase of thousands of dollars is expected to force large numbers of students, some very close to graduating, to withdraw from UC or to incur further crippling financial debt.
In the meantime, significant questions have arisen concerning the use of the funds that would result from these proposed fee hikes. We are concerned that some student fee revenue, rather than funding instruction, is being diverted to debt service for university construction projects. We are concerned also that a portion of student fees from all campuses subsidize the medical centers at UCSF, UCLA, and UC Davis. Families hard-pressed to pay for their children's university education would surely be unhappy at the prospect of paying yet more when these moneys may be inappropriately diverted from the educational mission of the university.
We the undersigned ask the following:
1. That any vote concerning UC fee hikes should be deferred until an audit can be accomplished and it can be clearly demonstrated that the revenue from fee hikes will go to education, not construction or other UC projects.
2. That more time be taken to consider alternative options to an across the board 32% fee hike, such as a fee structure correlated to ability to pay, and a slower and smaller fee hike over the next 18 months. Just as the UC faculty furlough policy of an across the board salary reduction was adjusted to a graduated cut, so should fees be adjusted to means.