Faced with increasing financial aid fraud, the board of California’s community colleges is considering ways to charge students an application fee and tighten its identity verification process. Students are pushing back.
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Immigrants learn English for free at California colleges. Under Trump, some are skipping class
California’s ESL courses gained 30,000 students over the past six years. As the Trump administration revokes student visas and escalates immigration raids, that growth is at risk.
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UC Santa Cruz to host first off-campus powwow in more than 30 years
The event set for Sunday at downtown Santa Cruz’s Kaiser Permanente Arena is free and open to everyone as it seeks to preserve Native traditions and culture for future generations.
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Body found near Its Beach identified as UC Santa Cruz student
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office has released the identity of the body found near Its Beach late last week as a 21-year-old UC Santa Cruz student.
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Facing enrollment challenges, Cabrillo College charts course to fix $5.5 million budget gap without layoffs or major cuts to classes
Cabrillo College President Matt Wetstein told Lookout on Wednesday that the school plans to address an estimated $5.5 million budget deficit without layoffs or major cuts to classes.
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Santa Cruz’s housing boom sees ‘significant slowdown’ as economic fears deepen
Santa Cruz County is facing multiple economic challenges, local leaders warned at an economic conference Thursday, as housing developments stall, UCSC grapples with federal funding cuts and government agencies prepare for a potential recession amid immigration concerns.
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UC Santa Cruz chancellor joins national push against Trump’s education policies
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive is among more than 400 campus leaders across the country who signed onto a group statement opposing the Trump administration’s efforts to exert increasing control over colleges and universities. It is higher education leaders’ most public pushback against the president since his return to office.
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Trump’s escalating attacks on research and education are hurting UC Santa Cruz – the public needs to act now
The Trump administration’s attack on scientific research will deeply affect UC Santa Cruz, write three eminent UCSC professors, including one who won a Nobel Prize for her work. Since Donald Trump took office, UCSC has lost 10 NIH grants worth $6 million, they write. In the past two weeks, the professors have lost $2.8 million in funding for biomedical programs. “The termination of these highly effective and legally compliant programs, based on undefined claims of woke ideology and waste, will weaken the crucial talent pool in the biomedical workforce – a loss our society can ill afford,” they write.
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Cabrillo College’s annual queer prom uplifts LGBTQ+ students
A student-led LGBTQ+ prom at Cabrillo College, born during the pandemic, has evolved into an annual tradition, offering students a safe space to celebrate the end of the school year.
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Residents decry UCSC’s planned $7,200 annual rent hike for new family student housing
UC Santa Cruz students living in family student housing say they don’t know how they’ll afford a rent increase of $600 a month when they move into a new housing facility later this year. They’re demanding the university rescind the increase.