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UC Irvine to open campus partially in July; full return slated for September Megan Garcia-Curran can’t hide her smile at the UC Irvine School of Medicine class of 2020 drive-through commencement ceremony on May 30, 2020. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer) Print It’s been more than a year since UC Irvine closed last March and both students and professors swiftly transitioned to online courses, but they’ll be able to return to the university as early as July in a phased back-to-campu...

UC Irvine appoints former dean as new provost and executive vice chancellor Hal Stern, the former dean of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and founding chair of the department of statistics, is now the provost and executive vice chancellor of UC Irvine. (Steve Zylius / UCI) Print UC Irvine found a new provost and executive vice chancellor in Hal Stern, a former dean of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and the founding chair of the de...

Several UC chancellors call for tuition increase amid pandemic-fueled budget crisis Teresa Watanabe © (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) UCLA is grappling with the pandemics financial fallout in part by redeploying workers, such as those in food service who are now making meals for low-income families as campus demand has plunged. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) As the pandemic throws the University of California into one of the worst financial crises it has ever collectively faced,...

Print As the pandemic throws the University of California into one of the worst financial crises it has ever collectively faced, top leaders at the majority of campuses say it’s time to consider a tuition increase for fall 2022. Chancellors and senior leaders at five of the nine UC undergraduate campuses told The Times that the staggering financial hit to their operations triggered by the coronavirus crisis and a $300.8-million proposed state budget cut this year have underscored the pressin...