In 2019, the Nevada System of Higher Education decided that students who needed remedial math instruction could receive it at the same time they were taking college-level math courses instead of ...

This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. About a dozen first-year UC Berkeley students gathered one afternoon last fall inside a classroom in Evans Hall, ...

More than 1,500 University of California faculty members have signed open letters calling on the UC system to restore standardized testing requirements for undergraduate admissions, citing a steep ...

The article was updated March 5 to include the letter from high-tech executives supporting the Algebra II requirement. It also clarifies that AP Statistics is for students who have completed Algebra ...

A math professor who alleges he faced "retaliation" for criticizing academic standards changes at his Reno, Nevada college has received a victory in a federal appeals court. Lars Jensen, a tenured ...

Kasia Jankiewicz, assistant math professor at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in its School of Mathematics for the 2024-25 academic year. This ...

But UC is not expected to decide immediately on whether to reinstate the tests - a delay that some professors who signed the open letter said could be too late for the class entering in fall 2028.

In December 2025, a group of researchers from around the world, including UC Berkeley math professor Nikhil Srivastava, gathered inside the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley.

NPR's Eyder Peralta speaks with University of California, Berkeley math professor Zvezdelina Stankova about efforts to bring back standardized exams as part of the admissions process.