Education
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.
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.
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.
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.
UCSC graduate student union leader Jack Davies on strike, strong opposition to new contract
Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers went on strike for better pay and benefits late last year — earning a new contract in December. The loudest opposition to the contract was at UC Santa Cruz, reflecting, UAW unit chair Jack Davies says, that members “were ready and prepared to continue the fight.”
‘It’s a big removal of a barrier’: What housing at California’s community colleges looks like
Two California community colleges built housing in the past couple of years, with very different approaches. The projects give a peek at the future of student housing as the state rolls out $500 million in grants to build or expand dorms and apartments on a dozen community college campuses.