Riverside County high school students who meet requirements are guaranteed admission to one of 10 Cal State campuses, part of a direct-admissions pilot program.
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Cabrillo College horticulture students help plan native, sustainable garden
The one-day beautification effort will create a drought-tolerant, eco-conscious landscape in partnership with K&D Landscaping, designed by Shanti Wertz of Evolve Exteriors and Nicola Hughes of Cabrillo Horticulture with support from students in the horticulture department. The native plant landscape design celebrates California’s native plants and Indigenous culture while providing a new outdoor lab area for students. Plants will be labeled to encourage community learning and cultural appreciation.
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UC Santa Cruz workers plan one-day strike April 1
UC Santa Cruz is bracing for major disruptions on campus as some unionized workers prepare for a one-day strike on April 1 as part of a systemwide job action affecting services from patient care to campus transportation.
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UC Santa Cruz faces fresh round of austerity measures with systemwide hiring freeze
UC Santa Cruz officials say they are reviewing the possible impact of a systemwide hiring freeze announced Wednesday by UC President Michael Drake as the university system contends with state budget constraints and funding challenges from the Trump administration.
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UCSC looks to cut grad student admissions, alter funding guarantee
UC Santa Cruz is reducing how many graduate students it admits for the upcoming 2025-26 academic year, mostly due to President Donald Trump’s attempts to slash federal funding to schools across the country. Faculty and students say reductions to graduate student classes will damage research and undergraduate education.
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County DA files first formal charges over UCSC protests amid a national crackdown on campus activism
A UC Santa Cruz student who participated in pro-Palestine protests last year is facing charges including resisting arrest and providing false information after they were arrested at demonstrations in May and in October. The local case was filed Friday as the federal government escalates threats to cut funding to universities that the Trump administration accuses of allowing harassment of Jewish students during pro-Palestine actions over the past year.
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‘Illegal, backwards and wrong’: Hundreds decry federal funding cuts, firings in Stand Up for Science rallies
Climate change, managing fisheries, cancer research and training young scientists were just some of the major issues Santa Cruz protestors raised in two of the more than 30 such science-focused gathering around the country on Friday. The rallies UCSC’s main and coastal campuses focused on Trump/DOGE cuts to federal funding and workforces and drew public impact connections to Santa Cruz.
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Cabrillo course spotlights native edible plants with Indigenous feast and film showcase
Inspired by recent climate disasters in Santa Cruz County, Edible Landscaping instructor Mimi Schilling decided to focus on edible plants native to the Central Coast when she took over the longstanding Cabrillo College course last fall. She also launched a monthly film series on food sovereignty, which culminates in a five-course dinner prepared by Central Coast-based Indigenous chef Christina Lonewolf and a screening of the film “Gather.” Students in the class are growing miner’s lettuce, an edible plant found widely in California, to use in the feast.
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California’s fund to build student housing runs dry — leaving community colleges in the lurch
Feather River College is still reeling from the 2021 Dixie fire, which destroyed hundreds of homes in the surrounding community and warped the housing market. The college is one of many California schools that have tried — and failed — to secure state grants to build more student housing.
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Hundreds of UC Santa Cruz employees join systemwide unfair labor practices strike
UC Santa Cruz health care and technical workers walked off the job Wednesday, joining a statewide strike over wages and alleged unfair labor practices. Unions say staffing shortages and cost-of-living pressures across the University of California system demand urgent action.