Roqua Montez will join the University of California on December 12 as the Director of Media Relations and Press Secretary. Montez joins UCOP from UC Berkeley, where he has served as the Executive Director of Communications and Media Relations for seven years. Prior to UC Berkeley, he led media and communications teams in both the private and nonprofit sector and was a reporter, editor and editorial writer at several major newspapers across the country.
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Roqua Montez joins UCOP as Director of Media Relations and Press Secretary
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Jorge Silva will join UC Office of the President as AVP for Communications
Jorge Silva, a communications leader with extensive experience in government, politics and the nonprofit sector, will join the University of California Office of the President on Nov. 1 as Associate Vice President for Communications.
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Joint UC-Teamsters Local 2010 statement on new multiyear contract for clerical employees and other administrative staff
University of California officials, Teamsters Local 2010 leaders, and bargaining team members today (Oct. 24) are pleased to announce that UC’s more than 13,000 clerical employees, library assistants, child care teachers and other administrative staff represented by the Teamsters have ratified a new four-year contract.
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Alumna Katherine S. Newman appointed as provost of the University of California system
The University of California Board of Regents today (Oct. 18) approved Katherine S. Newman, a nationally renowned academic leader and scholar, as UC Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.
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Alumna Katherine S. Newman appointed as provost of the University of California system
The University of California Board of Regents today (Oct. 18) approved Katherine S. Newman, a nationally renowned academic leader and scholar, as UC Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.
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UC Regents Chair Richard Leib statement on UC Berkeley School of Law
OAKLAND, Calif.—University of California Board of Regents Chair Richard Leib released the following statement on recent events within UC Berkeley’s School of Law:
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Persistence was key to UC regent and NASA astronaut José Hernández’s achievement of lifelong dream
Hernández shares what he has learned from a life that is the stuff of movies. (In fact, Amazon is turning it into a feature film!)
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UC and the Federated University Police Officers Association collaborate on new multiyear contract for UC police officers
The University of California is pleased to announce that the Federated University Police Officers Association (FUPOA) membership has voted to ratify a new four-year contract for UC’s 260 police officers. The agreement includes annual across-the-board increases and incentives for higher education, multilingual skills utilization, physical fitness and other police functions. The new contract will be effective from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2026.
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California’s public higher education leaders united in their support of DACA
In a joint statement, leaders urge DACA recipients to renew their status as a federal court reviews the program’s legal standing.
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California Community Colleges, California State University, and University of California issue joint statement on DACA ruling
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Community Colleges Interim Chancellor Daisy Gonzales, Ph.D., University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., and California State University Interim Chancellor Jolene Koester, Ph.D., released the following joint statement after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision upholding the State of Texas, et al., v. United States (2021) ruling that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program is unlawful:
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UC and Teamsters collaborate on new multiyear contract for clerical and other administrative staff
University of California officials today (Oct. 3) announced a tentative agreement with the Teamsters Local 2010 union on a new four-year contract for the more than 11,000 clerical employees, library assistants and other administrative staff represented by the Teamsters. Once ratified by union members, the new contract will be effective from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2026.
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‘Peace doesn't come from the sky’: Dalai Lama advocates for togetherness as he receives Spendlove Prize
A special recognition over a decade in the making was celebrated this month as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was awarded the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance.