Los Angeles Times |

UC extends discounted tuition to military veterans

Military veterans and their dependents who are UC students will be able to pay lower in-state tuition even if they otherwise are not eligible.
U-T San Diego |

UC San Diego creates its own 'Kickstarter'

The campus has joined the floodtide of universities that have created their own online crowdfunding sites, a move that’s bringing in money for projects as different as electric car research and renovating a baseball park.
The Conversation |

Billions of dollars left unused, as students fail to ask for financial aid

Students in California are letting nearly $400 million in aid go unclaimed. Nationwide, the total nears $3 billion. UC Riverside Chancellor Wilcox weighs in on the dilemma.
UC Newsroom |

Brown, Napolitano report on budget discussions

Governor, UC president describe talks as 'positive, productive' at UC Regents meeting.
UC Merced |

UC Merced outlines plan to double physical capacity

The ‘2020 Project’ aims to create more than 10,000 construction jobs in the San Joaquin Valley and allow enrollment to grow to 10,000 students.
UC Irvine |

Shooting for the stars

Mexican Space Agency hopes partnership with UC Irvine will help develop program’s ‘human capital.’
UC Riverside |

UC-Mexico Initiative Advisory Board meets in Ensenada, Mexico

Board eyes ways to involve Mexican and American private sectors, as well as measuring success of student and faculty exchanges, research collaborations and scholarly activities.
Los Angeles Times |

Stop Internet rage over flag flap

UC Irvine Chancellor Gillman: What followed short-lived ban was far worse: the Internet rage machine.
Sacramento Bee |

UC Merced needs a new strategy to expand

Op-ed: UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland makes case for expanding newest UC campus, to accommodate growing number of students.
Chronicle of Higher Education |

Former politicians, now college chiefs, lament pace of academe

Two of the nation’s highest-profile nontraditional university presidents — Mitchell Daniels Jr. of Purdue, and UC's Janet Napolitano — express frustration with the slow pace of change in academe and lament faltering public support for higher education.
Flipboard |

On the red couch with Janet Napolitano

UC's president still has her “ear on the ground” when it comes to politics.
UC Newsroom |

UC president urges federal investment in research, education and health care

UC's president petitions congressional delegates for financial support for innovation, educational opportunities for Californians and advancing health care.