UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego would decrease their share of out-of-state and international students and enroll more local residents under an amended state budget bill posted online Friday.
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UCSC digital artist channels fire, Chinese history in award-nominated VR project
A devastating 1938 blaze in his hometown of Changsha, China, was the jumping-off point for the latest project from MFA candidate Haoran Chang, whose virtual-reality work imagining a capitalist exploitation of traditional fire therapy is a finalist for a BAFTA award.
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Graduate student researchers at University of California seek union representation
Across the University of California, teaching assistants and tutors are unionized, but graduate student researchers are not. That could soon change after organizers filed more than 10,000 signed union authorization cards with the California Public Employment Relations Board last month.
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From groundskeeper to graduate: Katharina Pierini takes scenic route to UCSC degree
Katharina Pierini first enrolled at UC Santa Cruz in 1994 before life drew her away from her studies. Now a groundskeeper at the university, she is earning her bachelor’s degree this weekend — completing a path she set out on 27 years ago.
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As registration lags further behind, Cabrillo College pivots to a mostly in-person fall class schedule
“There’s a lot of angst among faculty and counselors right now about how this is impacting student schedules, and I get that,” Cabrillo College President Matt Wetstein said of the course change that will make 50-60% of classes in-person.
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His very own ‘Tour de cello’: Wistful over the lost year, UCSC senior on a graduation serenade mission
UC Santa Cruz anthropology and politics major Ross Piscitello is graduating next week on his way to law school. But first he’s making a final tour of the campus, cello in tow, performing at each residential college in the order in which they were built.
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Another UC strike looming? Clouds gather at UCSC, elsewhere as lecturers authorize walkout
Nearing an impasse with the University of California system over wages and job security, non-tenured lecturers could go on strike within two to three months — even as UC Santa Cruz and other schools are set to return to in-person classes.
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‘Their own intersection of pandemics’: Oral historians reflect on stories from UCSC’s year of crisis
Oral history project “The Empty Year” preserves the firsthand accounts of 22 students and staff at UC Santa Cruz who — from near or far — navigated the successive crises the campus faced in 2020.
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A bold plan for UC: Cut share of out-of-state students by half amid huge California demand
As the University of California confronts record demand for admission, lawmakers are considering a plan to cut in half the share of nonresident students to make more room for locals.
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A milestone in equity: For the first time, Cabrillo College’s graduating class is 50% Latinx
The milestone is seen as a signal of success at closing a completion gap between Latinx and white students. Latinx representation among Cabrillo College graduates has been on an upward trend for most of the past two decades — more than doubling since 2005.