The UC Board of Regents settled a discrimination lawsuit filed earlier this year by UC Berkeley visiting dance professor Yael Nativ on Monday. Under the settlement, campus acknowledged that Nativ faced discrimination based on her Israeli national origin when her application to return to teach was denied, which is a violation of the UC’s Anti-Discrimination Policy. Nativ will receive $60,000, and her attorneys from the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, as well as Olivier & Schreiber PC, will receive $56,000 to cover legal fees and costs, according to the settlement agreement. Per the agreement, UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons will personally apologize to Nativ, and campus will invite her to teach the course she would have taught in the fall of 2024 in the semester of her choosing in 2026 or 2027. “I respect and appreciate Dr. Nativ’s decision to settle this case,” Lyons said in a statement. “She is owed the apology I will provide on behalf of our campus. We look ...