New initiatives to aid students, researchers

Proclaiming that the University of California teaches for California and researches for the world, UC President Janet Napolitano today (Oct. 30) announced three initiatives aimed at supporting undocumented students, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students across the 10-campus university. In her first major speech since becoming UC’s 20th president a month ago, Napolitano told members of San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club that she would immediately allocate $15 million in non-state funds — $5 million for each of the three groups — toward easing the unique challenges affecting these students and researchers at UC.

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by staff, UC Newsroom.

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