In the face of deteriorating state funding, the University of California has begun enrolling more nonresident students to make up for revenue shortfalls, prompting concerns over the university’s commitment to its public mission.

Dwindling state funding has lent a new significance to the push for private donations at UC Berkeley and throughout the UC system. Though Berkeley has engaged in major private fundraising campaigns for the last 30 years, not long before the first major one began in 1985, state funding accounted for roughly half of the campus budget. Currently, state funding represents just 11 percent of the campus budget, corresponding with a transition in the role of private funding from functioning solely as a safety net for when state funding is insufficient for big projects to supporting more central campus needs.

For the sixth straight year, the University of California will not see a general obligation facilities bond measure on the November ballot after the university decided not to pursue it.

A tall man in his 40s with a booming laugh and a silver earring, Pastor Jeff Johnson has a lot to say about the role of the Christian church in the love lives of Christians and non-Christians alike.

The recent opening of a medical marijuana collective in Southwest Berkeley has raised confusion as to the enforcement of a November 2010 ballot measure that regulates where medical marijuana collectives and dispensaries can be located.