UC San Diego is one of several U.S. and Mexican institutions of higher education to launch the CaliBaja Consortium for Higher Education with the goal of becoming a leader in cross-border education by 2020.

The UC-Mexico Initiative Advisory Board advises on policy and resources and oversees working groups – on energy, education, health, environment, arts and culture – as well as a task force on student mobility.

University leaders from Baja California, San Diego forge long- and short-term collaborations.

In USC's 37th annual Pullias Lecture, the University of California president puts tuition in a wider context of the state system’s tradition of innovation.

Philanthropist Chuck Feeney's gift — which makes him the UC system's single largest donor — will support new Mission Bay hospitals, scholarships, faculty and research programs.

UC has taken a series of steps to combat global climate change by investing in sustainability, including becoming the first university in the world to sign the Montreal Carbon Pledge.

President Napolitano writes to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about the draft framework for the new college ratings system.

Per-student expenditures were $5,500 lower in 2012-13 than in 1990-91.

Universities across the country have developed entre­pre­neur­ship programs aimed at encouraging students and faculty to turn ideas into actual companies. Now, an increasing number of them also are giving money to help those businesses get started.

Anonymous $500,000 donation, matched by UC president’s new fund, will establish $1 million endowment to provide leadership and vision for UC Merced research.

Funds will go toward general expenses, augmenting the $1.5 million the UC Office of the President provides annually for operation.

UC President Napolitano spoke Monday at the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit to highlight the university’s investments in sustainability and its groundbreaking research enterprise.