Aiming to have trained mental health professionals, rather than police officers, respond to mental health crises, the Campus Mobile Crisis Team is now responding to calls four days a week on the UCSC campus and is ramping up to seven days a week. You can reach the service by calling 831-502-9988.
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UCSC’s next generation of scholars put their passion in the spotlight and on the clock
On Saturday at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, nine UC Santa Cruz graduate students will step into the spotlight with three minutes to explain their chosen field to the audience and a panel of judges. The winner of “Grad Slam” needs to be informative, engaging, relatable, even seductive, Wallace Baine writes — and victory can prove energizing.
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What should student loan borrowers do while waiting for Supreme Court forgiveness ruling?
With the high court’s conservatives expressing skepticism about the legality of the Biden administration’s blanket debt forgiveness, student loan borrowers are on notice that the relief they thought was coming may not materialize.
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Lookout Update: Cabrillo trustees unanimously appoint Martha Vega to governing board
Watsonville High School teacher Martha Vega will represent the city on Cabrillo’s board, taking the seat vacated by Felipe Hernandez after he was elected to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors.
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Lookout Update: Cabrillo College extends survey deadline, seeks more responses from youth
With a survey soliciting public input on Cabrillo College’s name change having received just over 1,200 responses as of Wednesday, the school has pushed the deadline to March 1 and asked local K-12 school districts to send it out to families.
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Applicants for vacant seat on Cabrillo governing board discuss declining enrollment, name change
Martha Vega, Rebecca Garcia and Manuel Bersamin are in the running to represent Watsonville on Cabrillo College’s governing board, a seat vacated when Felipe Hernandez was elected District 4 Santa Cruz County supervisor in November. Cabrillo trustees will appoint a replacement at a meeting Monday.
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Lawyer says UCSC media relations practices ‘raise very significant First Amendment problems’
UC Santa Cruz telling employees that journalists’ inquiries — including recently about layoffs at the school’s agroecology center and about last year’s academic workers strike — should go through the university’s media relations office could be seen as “inherently coercive” and restricting employees’ free speech, the legal director of the First Amendment Coalition told Lookout.
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More than 280 faculty, students, alumni denounce layoffs at UCSC’s agroecology center
Seeing five staffers, including two who spearheaded diversity and equity work, laid off as part of a broader reorganization “raised so many alarm bells for people,” one UC Santa Cruz provost said. “It’s been stressful, like I’ve been spirit-murdered,” said one student who described two of the laid-off staff members as mentors.