Many colleges, though not enough, closely monitor their power consumption in order to save money and reduce their environmental impact. But few go as far as the University of California at San Diego, which this week debuted a Web site that makes detailed, real-time data about campus energy use public information.

The Web site, called the Energy Dashboard, shows continually updated data about the consumption of the 60 largest buildings on the campus. Visitors can compare the power consumption of buildings across the campus or break down some of the data by electrical outlets, server rooms, lighting, and other factors.

The idea is to give individuals on the campus the information to understand how they contribute to the university's total power consumption, said Yuvraj Agarwal, the principal architect of the dashboard. Most colleges that have detailed information on energy usage do not...

Message to university presidents: Register your domain name.

Mark G. Yudof, president of the University of California, was forced to let it be known on Tuesday that he was not, in fact, resigning, after a prankster posted a fake resignation letter online. The letter was posted on markyudof.com, a site designed to look like Mr. Yudof's personal home page. "I hereby resign my tenure as President," the fake letter reads. It then praises student protesters and adds, "I have decided to go back to school to study the history of social movements."

Mr. Yudof debunked the letter nearly immediately on his Twitter feed: "Complete nonsense. Reports of my resignation have been greatly exaggerated."

The perpetrator? The faux-Yudof site is registered to Kenneth Ehrlich, a visiting lecturer in art on the university's Riverside campus. He maintains a blog, UCR Mobilize, that criticizes Mr. Yudof and...

Members of California State University's faculty union are trying to vote online on whether to accept an unpaid furlough of two days per month. But first they have to solve a spam-filter problem.

The proposed furlough is part of efforts to close a huge budget deficit in the Cal State system that results from California's statewide financial woes. On Tuesday the system's Board of Trustees approved a 20-percent tuition increase.

The faculty voting began 10 days ago, when a third-party firm contracted by the union, the California Faculty Association, began e-mailing online ballots to the union's members. The vote was scheduled to end a week later, in time to announce the results in advance of Tuesday's meeting of the board.

But the end of voting was extended until Wednesday after servers on several of the campuses rejected the online ballots, assuming the mass e-mails were spam. Union...

San Francisco — Over a six-month period, a group of computer hackers accessed a database containing the medical information of more than 160,000 people associated with the University of California at Berkeley, including social security numbers and immunization records, Berkeley announced today.

Hackers gained access in October 2008 to the electronic medical records of Berkeley students, alumni, and their parents dating back to 2001. The compromised information includes social security numbers, doctor histories, and immunization records, but not specific diagnoses or treatments, the university said in a statement.

The breach lasted until April 9, when campus computer administrators noticed messages left behind by the hackers, according to the statement. The university immediately notified law enforcement authorities and today it began notifying students, staff, and others — including...

San Francisco — Facebook announced new features on its Web site on Wednesday that will allow colleges and other organizations to create a centralized public profile and publish a live stream of announcements for their followers.

The changes expand the tools available to college administrators to communicate with students, alumni, and others who have Facebook accounts. Previously, the central pages for a college or university on Facebook were essentially walled off from the rest of the site, making it difficult for administrators to know whether any announcements or content that they posted were being seen.

Campuses will soon be able to create their own central public profiles, where they can post announcements and multimedia to a live, public feed. Students and others who choose to subscribe to the feed will see those updates on their home pages and be able to comment on any...