Faculty say the University of California’s reputation for academic excellence and its contribution to new ideas and innovations is at stake.

UC Berkeley’s Student Learning Center, which provides peer tutoring for undergraduate students, announced Thursday that campus administration proposed a 20% cut to its tutor and student staff budget.

Everyone's claiming victory in Thomson Reuters v. Ross. Here's what the Third Circuit decided, and what it left for generative AI.

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Cal Athletics released a merchandise collection this year honoring Cal football legend Joe Roth, who died from cancer shortly before graduating in 1977. Instead of donating the profits to cancer

On September 29, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of partial summary judgment to Thomson Reuters in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligen…

UC asked a federal judge to throw out the DOJ's Title VI lawsuit accusing UCLA of ignoring antisemitism, calling the case political coercion.

The fiery language came months after the Justice Department accused the university of abetting antisemitism against students.

UCLA will add full-time positions to its Student Affairs Mitigation Program to support the university’s response to protests and other demonstrations, UCLA Student Affairs said. The new positions incl...

The Ninth Circuit's beloved embedding shield is dead in the Fifth Circuit. Say hello to your new best friend: the "transmit requirement."

The first federal appeals court to weigh fair use in AI training sided with Thomson Reuters over ROSS. Why it did so, for now, is under seal.

[Links to several other open letters and faculty statements are below.]

City of LA faces free speech suit after public library officials scrapped two writers’ Read Palestine Week book talks

UC Berkeley Library’s Scholarly Communication and Information Policy office is partnering with Authors Alliance on our fall semester workshops for new academic authors. The next workshop is coming up...

The government officials still enforcing the president’s unconstitutional ban should be held in contempt

As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the ‘reverse centaur’. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant machi...

Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

Over 50 UCLA law faculty and 250 professors nationwide urge Chancellor Julio Frenk to retract his statement about a campus 9/11 symposium amid a growing academic freedom debate.

Professors planned a “serious scholarly discussion” of 9/11’s legal aftermath. Then right-wing media attention and a rebuke from their chancellor complicated things.

ARL Public Policy Briefing (September 2026) This month in the US, a circuit court held that a website does not infringe a copyright owner’s public display right merely by embedding...

Over 50 UCLA law faculty and 200 professors nationwide urge Chancellor Julio Frenk to retract his statement about a campus 9/11 symposium amid a growing academic freedom debate.

The AAUP calls on UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk to withdraw his public repudiation of a UCLA School of Law symposium and to reaffirm the academic freedom of UCLA faculty.

At Monday’s UC Board of Regents meeting, the investments committee announced a nearly $38 billion increase in its assets under management over the 2025-26 fiscal year.