Women and trans and nonbinary cadets at Cal State University Maritime Academy in Vallejo describe a pervasive culture of misogyny, sexual abuse and harassment.
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‘Shut it down!’: Picketers disrupt UC regents meeting as strike drags into fifth week
More than a month on strike from their jobs as teaching assistants and researchers, hundreds of academic employees rallied outside Wednesday’s meeting of the University of California regents at UCLA.
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UC strike leads to thousands of withheld grades for UCSC students
Ahead of the grading deadline for fall quarter, UC Santa Cruz instructors and students say campus officials are working to ensure that students who have missing grades due to the systemwide University of California academic workers strike aren’t penalized.
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Cabrillo College name change: The life and death of a good idea
Splitting the baby down the middle is often the worst outcome of any contentious debate like the Cabrillo College name-change discourse. But in this case, might “Cabrilla” be the answer? The change is as minimalist as you can get, a single syllable, a single utterance. It’s a great idea. And it’ll never happen.
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UC, academic workers agree to private mediation as quarter closes
The University of California and the United Auto Workers agreed to private mediation on Friday to reach an agreement after a month of striking.
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UC faces tumultuous finals week as strike reaches pivotal moment
In its fourth week, the massive academic workers strike has led to canceled finals, delayed grades and growing angst among students across the University of California’s 10 campuses.
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UCSC academic workers focus on ‘long-haul strike’ as job action shifts to withholding grades, exams
As the quarter comes to a close, UC Santa Cruz union leaders say there are new opportunities to boost their leverage in the ongoing labor action as pressure mounts to provide grades and conduct research. They held a virtual meeting Tuesday night attended by 500 participants across the UC system.
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Underscoring more than a half century of pioneering work in organic farming, University of California President Michael V. Drake announced today that UC Santa Cruz will be designated as an Agricultural Experiment Station (AES). UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced are the first campuses to receive this designation in 50 years, and join UC Davis, […]
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We asked you to vote on a new name for Cabrillo College; here are the results of our reader poll
Last month, Lookout asked readers to weigh in with suggestions for Cabrillo College’s new name — selecting either from a multiple-choice list of names or submitting ideas of their own. Here’s a sampling of the responses.