At this week’s ASUC Senate meeting, the ASUC passed several resolutions, which included recognizing the genocide in Sudan, urging funding for the Disabled Students’ Program, or DSP, and reallocating nearly $300,000 in funding from the sale of the Cal Lodge.
The remaining $296,997.54 from the sale of the Cal Lodge will be reallocated into the ASUC Investment Portfolio “to serve as a long-term endowment generating recurring revenue for ASUC bodies and RSOs.”
The ASUC sold the now 86-year-old Cal Lodge for a total of $502,000 in 2018 after the 2016-17 Chief Financial Officer raised concerns about its “operational inefficiency and financial sustainability,” according to Wednesday’s resolution.
The resolution stated that funds from the sale’s revenue were last used to purchase BerkeleyTime, an online course schedule planning platform for UC Berkeley students managed by the ASUC Chief Technology Office. The account used to store the remaining money was later discovered by Isha Chander, ASUC executive vice president and primary sponsor of the resolution, shortly after she took office in November 2025.
“I noticed that there was an account that hadn’t really been touched for a few years, and it was the Cal Lodge commercial account,” Chander said. “And I saw it was a plot of about $300,000.”
Chander stated that the ASUC Investment Portfolio would hold onto the money indefinitely to make sure “that the ASUC is sustainable and strong for years to come.”
The meeting also passed a resolution to urge the UC Regents for additional funding of DSP accommodations and services on campus.
As of March 2025, the UC system has 28,582 students enrolled in DSP programs.4,143 are undergraduates enrolled at UC Berkeley, which makes up 12% of the student population. The UC Board of Regents allocated $8 million in systemwide DSP funding, $1.5 million of which was allocated to UC Berkeley. However, this funding is set to expire by spring 2026, according to the resolution.
The resolution also urges UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons and several other campus administrators to “support efforts to increase retention and maintain funding to programs such as the Disabled Community Center and the Disabled Students’ Program.”
Originally drafted around the end of November, the ASUC also passed a bill that will now recognize the genocide in Sudan.
“Thousands of people have been killed and millions of people have been displaced from their home due to that genocide,” said ASUC Senator Margaret Solomon, who was the primary sponsor of the resolution.
Per this initiative, the ASUC will “work with Black and Muslim community senate offices and the Faces of Afro Muslims registered student organization” to organize campus fundraisers and awareness campaigns in support of Sudan.
Additionally, the resolution urges the Regents to stop investing in BlackRock, which has reportedly seen $163 million in investments from the UC system.