“I have a teacher who was like, ‘Away with the masks!’ And just wants to see everybody’s faces. But I know people are gonna still wear it and be cautious about it.” After two years of pandemic restrictions and remote learning, UC Santa Cruz students wonder about the school’s move to lift its mask mandate effective Sunday.
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Zoom, social anxiety, new fun — and sleep: UCSC student body president talks reemerging student life
UC Santa Cruz Student Union Assembly President Shivika Sivakumar describes the “revival” on campus after two COVID-torn years — and her favorite projects as students manage through unprecedented times.
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Without SAT, ACT, what’s next for Cal State admissions?
Cal State joined the University of California in ending its use of an admissions test for freshmen. Now the system is creating a new set of eligibility criteria, the first change since 1965. The plan is to focus on student high school grades and life experiences.
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At UCSC, what’s the impact of hiring 300 new faculty over the next decade?
Over the next decade, UC Santa Cruz will replace more than 200 faculty due to retirement or resignation — and hire for 100 additional positions. That’s the biggest change in its 57-year history.
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A baby step: UCSC students celebrate reopening of infant care program
Graduate students at UC Santa Cruz are celebrating a small but impactful decision: The school is reopening its infant care program after it closed in December 2019. The program will return in the fall and provide care for up to six infants.
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A plan for 300 on-campus beds for Cabrillo College students? Here’s how that is taking shape
Cabrillo — and UC Santa Cruz — tried to tap a new $2 billion state fund to build on-campus housing. While it was shut out for the first year of a three-year program, Cabrillo moves ahead with its planning for its first on-campus units.
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The collapse of community college enrollment: Can California turn it around?
Despite sinking overall enrollment, some community colleges in California are seeing more students come back. Targeted state aid is likely helping, but so is more in-person instruction.
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‘It feels like a personal attack’: UCSC, Cabrillo College officials condemn hate-related vandalism
Two weekend hate-related incidents have left UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College students, faculty and administrators feeling shocked, vulnerable and angry. At UCSC, suspects scrawled anti-Black, antisemitic and white supremacist graffiti on five areas at Crown and Merrill colleges, while at Cabrillo, someone set fire to the rainbow Pride flag at the Watsonville Center. School administrators have denounced the incidents and police are actively working to see if the cases are related.
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Lawmakers unveil rescue effort to help UC Berkeley avoid enrollment cuts after court battle
The legislation would take effect immediately and retroactively, allowing UC Berkeley to maintain its original in-person fall class.
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UC Berkeley will increase California students, cut out-of-state ones to meet enrollment cap
The campus plans to enroll about 5,370 first-year California students both in person and online this fall, an increase of about 500 over last year.