SAN FRANCISCO — The University of California Board of Regents discussed salary increases for administrators when it met at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus for its meeting on Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO — The University of California Board of Regents discussed the UC’s sexual violence policy and setting up funds for endowed chair positions, among other things, when it met at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus for its meeting on Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO – The University of California Board of Regents approved former undergraduate student government councilmember Avi Oved as the new student regent-designate Wednesday, despite concerns from some students about his appointment.

The governor’s proposed funding level for the University of California is nearly 25 percent below what it was before the Great Recession, adjusted for inflation, according to a new report from a policy research agency.

Breast cancer runs in Blanca Villagomez’s family. It struck both her great-grandmother and grandmother, but her mother, who is undocumented and uninsured, has never been screened or even consulted a doctor about the possibility of developing it herself.

A public policy research group recently said the state should invest more in its public higher education institutions, despite an increased funding level in the governor’s proposed budget.

President Barack Obama signed into law on Friday a $1.1 trillion spending bill that partially restores last year’s sequestration cuts from various federal research grants and financial aid programs.

University of California President Janet Napolitano spoke as a panelist about supporting disadvantaged students at a White House summit on Thursday attended by President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and more than 100 higher education leaders.

In dry, sunny Los Angeles, where most of the water supply is obtained outside the region, the possibility of an extreme global water shortage hits close to home.