With Cabrillo College’s board of trustees slated to vote Monday on renaming the school, breaking the connection with 16th-century European explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and undoing harm to Native peoples are top of mind for those advocating for the move.
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In Cabrillo College’s Rising Scholars program, formerly incarcerated students find pathway to higher education
Cabrillo College students are among the 20,000 incarcerated or formerly incarcerated students served by the Rising Scholars Network across California’s community college campuses, jails, prisons and juvenile detention centers. Led by Donnie Veal, who served 23 years behind bars before graduating this year from UC Santa Cruz, Cabrillo’s program “helped me build a bigger sense of community and establish in me a bigger sense of responsibility,” one student participant says.
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As backlash over Cabrillo College name change grows, some donors weigh whether to keep giving
The Cabrillo College Foundation raises between $3 million and $6 million to support the college’s students through scholarships and its programs. As many longtime Cabrillo supporters oppose the college’s planned name change, Lookout reached out to more than 20 donors to gauge what they may do about their future support.
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Stanford president says he’ll resign amid scrutiny over his research
After a review of allegations made about his scientific articles found issues, Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said he will resign.
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Joint Cabrillo College-UCSC student housing project in limbo after changes to state budget
What had been expected to be a $111 million state grant to cover Cabrillo College’s portion of a $181.7 million joint 624-bed development at the Aptos campus became bonds issued by the school with state support. That, the school’s president says, has left Cabrillo leaders in a “very uncomfortable space to move forward [with the project] right now.”
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CSU trustees to weigh an annual 6% tuition increase amid major funding gap
California State University officials say the annual tuition increase is necessary to help contend with a nearly $1.5 billion budget gap, with students paying $342 more the first year alone.
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With renaming vote looming, Cabrillo College trustees spar over timeline, community backlash
Cabrillo College’s governing board is slated to vote Aug. 7 on a new name for the school, but with just $2,500 of the potential $600,000 needed for the change raised so far, two trustees voiced concerns about moving forward.
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Who is a first-generation college student? California colleges, universities can’t agree.
Many California colleges and universities define “first-generation college student” differently, creating a confusing situation for students to navigate.
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Campus maps, highway signs, scoreboards: Why Cabrillo College’s renaming could cost up to $600,000
Final estimates are still in the works, but the cost of renaming Cabrillo College is likely to include big-ticket items such as changing 25 campus maps, updating highway signs, rebranding the school’s logo and repainting its athletic scoreboards. College president Matt Wetstein said the work will be paid for through fundraising and is likely to be spread out over several years.
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As the fight against RSV adds vaccines, UCSC researcher is on the cutting edge
Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, raged last winter, contributing to a “tripledemic” where cases of flu, COVID-19 and RSV all flooded the nation’s hospitals at once. UC Santa Cruz professor Rebecca DuBois is deep into vaccine research even as a CDC committee recommended a pair of immunizations this week. DuBois works at the molecular scale, and her research is action-packed and futuristic-sounding.