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Explainer: What is UCSC’s plan to add 8,500 more students by 2040? And where will they all live?
Lookout breaks down UC Santa Cruz’s Long Range Development Plan, the document that lays out how the university envisions developing its physical infrastructure and growing its student enrollment through 2040, plus the history of campus growth and community opposition.
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City of Santa Cruz, UCSC in talks to possibly end lawsuits over enrollment and housing plans
UC Santa Cruz and the City of Santa Cruz have been embroiled in a lawsuit since February 2022 over UCSC’s plan to boost enrollment by an additional 8,500 students by 2040. The Long Range Development Plan, approved in 2021, set off a wave of lawsuits from the city and the county over potential worsening impacts on the region’s housing market. But now, Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley says the two sides are in talks to end the LRDP lawsuit and a second, separate lawsuit related to water access on campus.
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Thousands of Californians are missing out on federal student aid. Here’s why
Many college students rely on federal student aid to cover expenses, but increasingly complicated laws and poor communication have made those dollars harder to come by for some adult students.
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Amah Mutsun Tribal Band chairman calls for update of UCSC’s land acknowledgment
The land acknowledgment recognizes that land on which UC Santa Cruz sits is Native land that was taken rather than handed over. During a campus event Wednesday, Valentin Lopez of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band said UCSC’s acknowledgment needs to include the fact that because of violent colonization, there are no surviving descendants of the Awaswas-speaking people who once lived in the region.
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UCSC Professor Emeritus John Brown Childs on why transcommunality resonates with Soledad prison students
UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus John Brown Childs teaches a course on transcommunality, his concept of peaceful conflict resolution, to men serving prison sentences at Soledad Correctional Training Facility. He is giving a talk about his experience Tuesday at the Cowell Hay Barn on the UCSC campus, part of the Emeriti Faculty Lecture series.
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‘Super disappointed’: Lawmakers want UC to enroll more Californians sooner
Enrollment is down at the University of California and the Cal State, which has frustrated lawmakers who gave both systems more money to increase their number of students.
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Lookout Update: Cabrillo College name selection task force to hold first meeting next month
With a list of about 400 suggested new names for Cabrillo College, a trustee-led group of community members will convene in April for the first of a series of meetings, aiming to whittle those suggestions to a shortlist of three to five.
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University of California to purchase Westside house for UCSC chancellors
The UC Office of the President is purchasing the Westside home in which Chancellor Cynthia Larive and her husband have lived since 2019, to be used as UCSC’s official chancellor’s residence. Officials didn’t confirm the purchase price for the home, which most recently sold for $1.8 million in 2018. For decades, UCSC chancellors lived in University House, which was built on campus in 1967. That house, which was a source of protest and tragedy, was deemed uninhabitable in 2015, and estimates to repair the home reached $10 million in 2019.
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UC regents approve budget for UCSC’s long-delayed Student Housing West project
Construction could begin early next year on a $146 million project that includes 140 units for students with families as well as a child care center at the intersection of Hagar and Coolidge drives on UC Santa Cruz’s East Meadow.