During the first week of the year, 94 UC San Diego students tested positive for COVID but that number shrunk to five last week, pushing the campus positivity rate back to the university's pre-break level of under 1%.

"California's universities are playing national leadership roles in weakening the SAT/ACT in college admissions," said Ray Rosner, executive director of the Princeton Review Foundation, a nonprofit advocate for fair testing.

On Jan. 13, Apple and Atlanta-based Southern Co. (NYSE:SO) announced they would each invest $25 million to build the Propel Center, a technology and innovation hub for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

The Regents passed a controversial measure that would temporarily grant universities the option to implement policies bypassing regular policies on faculty and employee suspensions, terminations, and dismissals to address financial shortfalls.